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THE ANCESTRY OF JOHN STUART, 3RD EARL OF BUTE

 

1  John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute

   b 25 May 1713, Edinburgh

   d 10 Mar 1792, Westminster

 

Parents

 

2  James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Bute

   b ca 1690

   d 28 Jan 1722/23, London

   m cont Feb 1711

3  Anne Campbell

   b 12 Jan 1691/92

   d 20 Oct 1736, Strichen, Aberdeenshire

 

Grandparents

 

4  James Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute

   b

   d 4 Jun 1710, Bath, Somerset

   m cont 24 Jul 1680

5  Agnes Mackenzie

   b 2 Jan 1663

   bur 26 Jul 1696, Greyfriars, Edinburgh

6  Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll

   bap 25 Jul 1658, Canongate, Edinburgh

   d 25 Sep 1703, Cherton House, near Newcastle

   m 12 Mar 1677/78

7  Elizabeth Tollemache

   bap 10 Jul 1659, Great Fakenham, Suffolk

   d 9 May 1735, Campbelltown

 

Great-grandparents

 

8  Sir Dugald Stuart of Bute, 2nd Baronet

   b

   d 1670

   m 1658

9  Elizabeth Ruthven

   b

   d

10 Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, King’s Advocate

   b 1636, Dundee, Angus

   d 8 May 1691, Westminster

   m cont 8 Dec 1662

11 Elizabeth Dickson

   bap 13 Oct 1640, Edinburgh

   bur 13 Aug 1669, Greyfriars, Edinburgh

12 Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll

   b 26 Feb 1628/29, Dalkeith

   d 30 Jun 1685, Cross of Edinburgh

   m 13 May 1650, Canongate, Edinburgh

13 Mary Stuart

   b

   d May 1668

14 Sir Lionel Tollemache of Helmingham, Suffolk, 3rd Baronet

   bap 25 Apr 1624, Great Fakenham, Suffolk

   bur 25 Mar 1669, Helmingham

   m ca 1648

15 Elizabeth Murray, suo jure Countess of Dysart

   bap 28 Sep 1626, St. Martin in the Fields

   d 5 Jun 1698, Ham, Surrey

 

Great-great-grandparents

 

16 James Stuart of Ardmoleish, Bute, 1st Baronet

   b

   d 1662, London

   m cont 9 Mar 1631

17 Grizel Campbell

   b

   d

18 General Sir John Ruthven of Dunglass

   b

   d ca 1648

   m

19 Barbara Leslie

   b

   d 1672

20 Simon Mackenzie of Lochslin, Ross-shire

   b

   d Jan 1666, Balcony

   m cont May and Jun 1634

21 Elizabeth Bruce

   b

   d

22 John Dickson of Hartree, MP for Peeblesshire

   b

   d 1653

   m cont 1 Jan 1632

23 Susanna Ramsay

   b

   d

24 Archibald Campbell, 8th Earl of Argyll

   b ca 1607

   d 27 May 1661, Cross of Edinburgh

   m Aug 1626

25 Margaret Douglas

   b 1610

   d 13 Mar 1677/78

26 James Stuart, 4th Earl of Moray

   b

   bur 22 Mar 1652/53, Dyke, Moray

   m cont 18 Oct 1627

27 Margaret Home

   b

   d 1683

28 Sir Lionel Tollemache of Helmingham, 2nd Baronet

   b 2 Aug 1591, bap 15 Aug 1591, Helmingham

   d 6 Sep 1640, Helmingham

   m 16 Dec 1612, St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster

29 Elizabeth Stanhope

   bap 14 Aug 1593, Chelsea

   d 25 Dec 1661

30 William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart

   b ca 1600

   d 6 Dec 1655, Edinburgh

   m 2 Oct 1625, Little Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire

31 Catherine Bruce

   b

   d 2 Aug 1649, Ham

 

 

Sources

 

The Complete Peerage (2nd edition)

The Complete Baronetage

The Dictionary of National Biography

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

The Scots Peerage

The History of Parliament

E.D.H. Tollemache, The Tollemaches of Helmingham and Ham (Ipswich, 1949)

J.W. Buchan and H. Paton, eds, A History of Peeblesshire (Glasgow, 1925-27)

Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1894

Doreen Cripps, Elizabeth of the sealed knot: a biography of Elizabeth Murray, Countess of Dysart (Kineton, 1975)

History of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, 1876-78 (Alnwick, 1879), 410

Little Berkhamsted bishop’s transcripts

St Luke, Chelsea, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X1YS-DHW)