Edward Michael Stewart

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Part 1 STEWARTS of KILLYMOON & TYRCALLEN

Generation 6

                                                                 6.1          EDWARD MICHAEL STEWART 1797

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Much of the detailed lineage of the Stewarts that follow is from the work by Gerald Pakenham Stewart (Stewart2 file). Other sources are documents in PRONI, newspapers and several papers on the Jeffrey family and EMC papers.

Born: Dublin, 24/9/1797 (GPS522 & SLP)
Died: at Knockbreda, Belfast Dec 2 1883 (SLP). Marguerite Terrace, Belfast. (no will details)
Buried: Glendermot Church, Co Derry.
Parents: Henry Stewart and Elizabeth Pakenham,

Rev. Edward Michael Stewart and Jane Renwick Jeffrey Stewart. Watercolour painting by Agnes Jeffrey, collection of Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester NY

Summary[2]:

Edward was the son of Henry Stewart
EMS was farming in a small way in SW Scotland, at Baldoon, on the southern edge of Wigtown, near the shore of the estuary where there are still "Baldoon sands" shown on maps. Possibly after a hard winter, by 1832 he had decided it was not a viable proposition. The land was rented from Mr Arbuckle. There was evidently talk and papers about life in North America. He decided to go to Upper Canada with Matthew Arbuckle[3] (the son of his landowner), with whom he may have been farming at Baldoon, to see for himself what Canada was like. He sailed by the "Eagle" on 27 May 1832, from Liverpool. It is not known how long he spent in Canada, but he was presumably in Britain when he was married in September 1833.

  His time in Baldoon explains his meeting Jane Renwick Jeffrey, who is said by EMC to have come from Dumfries-shire: her mother, Elizabeth McConnell was probably brought up on Wigtown, where her father (Jane’s grand father) was a lawyer and local landowner. JJF describes her father as an Edinburgh lawyer; but he is consistently referred to as of Allerbeck; he had a farm there, although not a big one by the look of it. No information has appeared about Edward’s marriage except for a reference in the notes of letters received by his parents of congratulations sent and a date in GPS. A collection of drawings and paintings in Jane's sister Agnes's Sentiment Book holds a pencil drawing by Jane of Wigtown from Baldoon: Jane must therefore have been at Baldoon at some time.

A number of Jane's siblings emigrated to North America in the 1830's, the first seeming to be her younger brother, Alexander (at the age of 16). They were mostly in the US, but her sister Isabella married Rev Bold Cudmore Hill of Co Haldiman, Ontario. Another sister, Agnes was a painter. Several of her close relatives were also artists. Who set the trend is unclear.
He, his wife Jane, son Henry William and maid arrived in Canada by February 1835 and lodged for a time with a Doctor. History does not relate where. They were in Cayuga by 1839, when his mother wrote to her nephew, Charles Wellesley, asking him to look out for them.
Note: Mathew Arbuckle was b. 22/11/1804, baptised 16/12/1804 at Kirkinner, near Wigtown, child of Robert Arbuckle and Mary Anderson.
He was in Holy Orders, of Guelph and of Clooney, co. Derry,

Added by Janet Milburn
Edward Michael Stewart is our 7th cousin 7 times removed.

I am looking for parents of Ephraim, Henry, Stephen, Lucinda, Susan. Stewart.
Their parents are unknown, they were living in western Virginia and were probably
deceased beore 1830.
April 12, 2024