Sir George Stirling, 6th of Keir, 3rd of Cawdor

Biographical Summary

"Sir George Stirling of Keir and Cawdor, Knight. On 20th March 1630, George Stirling was served heir-male of Sir James Stirling, fiar of Keir, Knight, his father, in the lands of Strowy, being a fifth part of the barony of Keir, and also in the lands of Piquhonartie, which were then in the hands of the liferenter, Sir Archibald Stirling of Keir, Knight, grandfather of George. On the death of Sir Archibald, on 17th May 1630, George expede, on 4th September following, a service as heir-male of his father, Sir James, in the barony of Keir. In the gift, dated 17th August 1630, by James (Law) Archbishop of Glasgow, of the ward and non-entry of Cawdor, George is called only son of Sir James. His two elder brothers, who were alive in 1614, must therefore have died before 1630, without issue...

...Sir George Stirling first married, in his eigteenth year, his cousin, the Honourable Margaret Ross, daughter of James, Lord Ross. She was born 19th December 1615, and was married in her fifteenth year,as the marriage contract is dated December 1630... Margaret Ross died 10th March 1633, in her seventeenth year. She left one daughter, Margaret Stirling, who died two months after her mother on 11th May 1633 - a child of a year old...

...Sir George Stirling married, secondly, Margaret Napier, daughter of Archibald first Lord Napier, by Margaret sister of the great Marquis of Montrose. Their marriage settlements are dated 2nd January 1637. He married, thirdly, Anna, second daughter of Sir Thomas Nicholson of Carnock, Baronet. The marriage contract is dated 2nd February 1654... She died before 1st March 1664. Sir George married, fourthly Lady Margaret Livingston...

...Lady Margaret Livingston was the eldest daughter of Alexander second Earl of Linlithgow, by Lady Mary Douglas, eldest daughter of William tenth Earl of Angus. Lady Margaret survived Sir George, who died a year after their marriage. She married in1668, for her third husband, Sir John Stirling of Keir, who was cousin-german once removed of Sir George...

...Sir George died in June 1667, having had by his first wife an only daughter, Margaret Stirling, who predeceased him in childhood on 11th May 1663."

SOURCE: The Stirlings of Keir, and their family papers; Fraser, William Sir; 1858; page 48