Ancestry of Major
John Pitcairn

British Commander at Battle of Lexington

John Stewart

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of John Pitcairn — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 232 
  • Father:
  • Matthew Stewart 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Hamilton   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1490 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Sep 1526 
  • Death Location:
  • Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Stewart
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Jan 1511 
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  John Stewart (Ahnentafel No:116 )

  Eleanor Stewart

  • Notes: 

  • 3rd Earl of Lennox

    He was captured at the Battle of Linlithgow Bridge and was subsequently murdered by James Hamilton of Finnart.

• Sources for John Stewart

  • ¹ Pitcairn, Constance, The History of the Fife Pitcairns with Transcripts from Old Charters, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons (1905), 419.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 3, p. 179.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 97.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox", _3rd_Earl_of_Lennox, (accessed 12/19/2013).