William Stuart Stirling-Crawford of Castlemilk

WILLIAM STUART STIRLING, AFTERWARDS WILLIAM SUART STIRLING-CRAWFORD OF CASTLEMILK

William Stuart Stirling is the son of William Stirling of Castlemilk and Milton, and his wife, Mary Anderson. He was born on 17 December 1819 and his baptism was registered at Barony parish in Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 23 December 1819 Barony Baptismal Records

In 1828, on the death of his grand-aunt, Mrs. Margaret Stuart Rae Crawford of Milton, William Stuart Stirling succeeded, in terms of the entail, to the Milton estates, including Over Possil, and assumed the additional surname of Crawford..Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry: Possil

Death

William Stuart Stirling-Crawford of Castlemilk died on 23 February 1883 Daryll Lundy's Peerage

Marriage

William Stuart Stirling-Crawford of Castlemilk married, as her second husband, Honourable. Caroline Agnes Horsley-Beresford, daughter of John Horsley-Beresford, Baron Decies, and Charlotte Philadelphia Horsley, on 22 January 1876 Daryll Lundy's Peerage

Other References

• The Sterling genealogy; by Albert Mack Sterling;1909; page 81
• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 384