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THE ANCESTRY OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE

 

William Ewart Gladstone

   b 29 Dec 1809, Liverpool, Lancashire

   d 19 May 1898, Hawarden, Flintshire

 

Parents

 

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

Anne Mackenzie Robertson

   b 4 Aug 1772

   d 23 Sep 1835, Fasque

 

Grandparents

 

Thomas Gladstones of Leith, corn merchant

   b 3 Jun 1732

   d 12 May 1809, Leith

   m 21 Apr 1762

Helen Neilson

   b 7 Oct 1739, Edinburgh

   d 17 Jul 1806, bur 22 Jul 1806, North Leith

Andrew Robertson of Park House, Dingwall, Provost of Dingwall

   b ca 1719

   d 23 Sep 1796, Dingwall

   m 12 Apr 1760

Anne Mackenzie

   b ca 1740

   d 23 Apr 1823, Seaforth, Lancashire

 

Great-grandparents

 

John Gladstones of Toft Combes near Biggar, Lanarkshire, miller and farmer

   b ca 1694

   d 1 Jun 1757, bur Biggar

   m

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

 

Great-great-grandparents

 

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

 

 

Sources

 

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)

The Scots Magazine

The Liverpool Mercury

Edinburgh parish registers

Lloyd’s Evening-Post, 3-5 Oct 1796

North Leith parish registers

Hamilton parish registers

St Andrew, Liverpool, bishop’s 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.