Family and Education
1st s. of William Stewart of Mains and Barbara, da. and h. of James Stewart of Burray. unm. suc. fa. c.1656.Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLVII, unfol.: 25 Feb. 1656. d. 1665.Orkney Archives, ‘Orcadian Families’, p. 1349; ‘Commissariat Recs. of Moray, Orkney and Shetland’, Scot. Rec. Soc. xx-xxi. 50.
Offices Held
Local: factor, earl of Morton’s rents, Orkney and Shetland c.1653–9. 31 Dec. 1655
: of Mains, Lanarkshire and Burray, Orkney.
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Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
STEWART, James (d. 1665), the younger, of Mains, Lanarkshire, and Burray, Orkney.
Will
15 Dec. 1665.‘Commissariat Recs.’, 50.
Estates
Orkney lands inc. islands of Burray, Hunda, Glimps Holm, Flotta, Calf of Flotta and South Ronaldsay, disposed to his bro. William, 31 Mar. 1660 (confirmed 24 Jan. 1661); also tutorship of children of late Rev. Walter Stewart (discharged 20 Sept. 1656) on South Ronaldsay.The Orkney Parishes ed. J. Storer Clouston (Kirkwall, 1927), 201; ‘Orcadian Families’, pp. 1349-50. Inherited estate at Mains, and at Cultihill and Seaside, Fife.‘Orcadian Families’, pp. 1349-50. 19-year lease of rents and teinds, Wallis parsonage, Orkney (formerly possessed by James Moody of Melsetter), from Edinburgh corp. 3 July 1657.Edinburgh City Archives, SL1/1/19, ff. 223v-4v.
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