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THE
ANCESTRY OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
1
William Ewart Gladstone
b 29 Dec 1809, Liverpool, Lancashire
d 19 May 1898, Hawarden, Flintshire
2
Sir John Gladstone of Liverpool, Baronet
b 11 Dec
1764, Leith, Midlothian
d 7 Dec
1851, Fasque, Kincardineshire
m 29 Apr
1800, St. Peter, Liverpool
3
Anne Mackenzie Robertson
b 4 Aug
1772
d 23 Sep
1835, Fasque
4
Thomas Gladstones of Leith, corn merchant
b 3 Jun 1732
d 12 May 1809, Leith
m 21 Apr 1762
5
Helen Neilson
b 7 Oct 1739, Edinburgh
d 17 Jul 1806, bur 22 Jul
1806, North Leith
6
Andrew Robertson of Park House, Dingwall, Provost of Dingwall
b ca 1719
d 23 Sep 1796, Dingwall
m 12 Apr 1760
7
Anne Mackenzie
b ca 1740
d 23 Apr 1823, Seaforth, Lancashire
8
John Gladstones of Toft Combes near Biggar, Lanarkshire,
miller and farmer
b ca 1694
d 1 Jun 1757, bur Biggar
m
9
Janet Aitken
b ca 1700
d 5 Feb 1780
10 Walter
Neilson of Springfield near Edinburgh, merchant
b
d
m 26 Mar 1737, Hamilton
11 Margaret Mutter
b
d
12 George
Robertson, Sheriff-Depute and Commissary of Ross
b
d
m
13 Agnes
Barbour
b
d
14 Colin
Mackenzie, innkeeper and baillie of Dingwall
b
d
m
15 Mary
Mackenzie
b
d
16 William
Gledstanes of Biggar, maltster
b
d ca 1728, bur
Libberton
m
17 Christian
Brown
b
d
18
b
d
m
19
b
d
20 Walter Neilson of Hamilton, merchant
b
d
m
21
b
d
22 Thomas Mutter of Stonehouse
b
d
m
23
b
d
24 Colin
Robertson of Kindeace
b
d
m
25 Rebecca
Munro
b
d
26 John
Barbour of Aldourie, co. Inverness
b
d 20 Oct
1723
m
27
b
d
28
b
d
m
29
b
d
30 Kenneth
Mackenzie of Torridon, Ross and Cromarty
b
d
m 1703
31 Ann
Mackenzie
b
d
Sydney
George Checkland, The Gladstones:
a family biography 1764-1851 (London, 1971)
The
Dictionary of National Biography
H.C.G.
Matthew, Gladstone 1875-1898 (Oxford, 1995)
M.R.D.
Foot and H.C.G. Matthew, eds., The Gladstone Diaries
J. Foster, Our Noble and Gentle Families of
Royal Descent,
vol. 1
William Hunter, Biggar and the House of Fleming, 2nd edition (Edinburgh and
Biggar, 1867)
Burke’s
Peerage and Baronetage (80th edition, 1921)
Burke’s
Landed Gentry
(18th edition)
The
Genealogy of the Families of Douglas of Mulderg and
Robertson of Kindeace with their Descendants (Dingwall, 1895)
Thomas Archer, William Ewart
Gladstone and his Contemporaries (London, 1883)
S.A. Scott, Monumental Inscriptions (pre-1855)
in the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire (1977)
Robert Douglas, The Baronage of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1798)
Lloyd’s Evening-Post, 3-5 Oct 1796
North
Leith parish registers
Hamilton
parish registers
St.
Andrew, Liverpool, bishops’ transcripts
Caldedonian Mercury, 10 May 1823
Monumental
inscription at Biggar (www.findagrave.com/memorial/132840073/john-gladstone)
Probate
record of John Barbour (National Records of Scotland, CC11/1/4)
Notes
Number
27 was probably Katherine Mackintosh, wife of John Barbour of Aldourie.