Colonel James Stuart of Torrance, 3rd Baronet

JAMES STUART OF TORRANCE

Lieutenant-colonel of the third Regiment of Foot Guards; Genetlemen Usher of King George I

Death

Colonel James Stuart of Torrance died intestate in April 1743, at London in England. He was unmarried. [National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh Commissary Court, Testament Dative and Inventory of Colonel James Stewart of Torrence, Confirmation granted on 6 July 1749, reference CC8/8/112]

His Testament Dative

The Testament Dative and Inventory of Colonel James Stuart of Torrance was given up by Archibald Stewart, Writer to the Signet, who was confirmed as the only executor dative qua creditor to the defunct on 6 July 1749. [National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh Commissary Court, Testament Dative and Inventory of Colonel James Stewart of Torrence, Confirmation granted on 6 July 1749, reference CC8/8/112]

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

1726-36: Draft legal account, Colonel James Stuart of Torsence to Archibald Stuart, WS. 3 pieces. National Records of Scotland, Records of Messrs Tods Murray and Jamieson WS, lawyers, Edinburgh, reference GD237/20/47

Genealogy

Andrew Stuart, Esq., M.P., Genealogical History of the Stewarts, from the earliest period of their authentic history to the present time (Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies in the Strand, London, 1798), pp. 375-9 for the Stuarts of Torrance]

From London Gazette Issue 7526 24 July 1736 Page 1

Hanover. 22 July 1736, N. S.

His Majesty has likewise been pleased to appoint Charles Legge, Esq; to be first Major, Tobias Cramer, Esq; second Major, James Stuart, Esq; Captain, and Charles Ingram, Esq; Captain Lieutenant, in the third Regiment of Foot Guards commanded by the Right Hon. John Earl of Dunmore.

From British Newspaper Archive: Caledonian Mercury Mon 11 April 1743 Page 3 Edinburgh, April 11

All Accounts from London advise, that the Hon. Colonel James Stuart of Torrance, Esq; died last week at his lodgings in that city. He was an officer of great experience, and signalized his valour at the Battle of Almansa, Almansa, Albacete, Spain, 25 April 1707 38.87444, -1.0936944, and other actions in Spain.

From findagrave: James Stuart (unknown-1743)

• Name: James Stuart
• Born: unknown
• Died: 3 April 1743
• Buried: [East Kilbride Old Parish Churchyard, Montgomery Street, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire G74 4JS 55.7647528, -4.1762042]
• Inscription:
  • Alexander Stuart, died 1733
  • James Stuart, died 1743
  • Archibald Stuart, died 1767
  • his wife, Elizabeth Myrton or Stuart, died 1772
  • Alexander Stuart, died 1798
  • Andrew Stuart, died 1801

From Genealogical history of the Stewarts, from the earliest period of their authentic history to the present time. Containing a particular account of the origin and successive generations of the Stuarts of Darnley, Lennox, and Aubigny, and of the Stuarts of Castelmilk by Andrew Stuart Published 1798 Page 378

James Stuart of Torrance, eldest son, Lieutenant Colonel of the 3rd regiment of foot guards, and one of the Gentleman Ushers to King George the First. He died unmarried in the year 1743, and was succeeded by his brother Patrick Stuart of Torrance, Captain in the Royal regiment of foot, and some time Representative in Parliament for the county of Lanark. He died unmarried in the year 1760, and was succeeded by his brother Archibald Stuart of Torrance, who carried on the line of the Torrance family. He married Elizabeth Myreton, daughter of Sir Andrew Myreton of Gogar, Baronet, and died in November 1767, leaving three sons and three daughters.