Stirlings of Keir

PATRICK STIRLING, 1704-1745. 107
IV. Patrick Stirling of Kippendavie. He was bom on the 8th and bap-
tized on the 9th April 1704. l He married Margaret, daughter of Sylvester
Douglas of Whiteridge, and Margaret Keith, his spouse. Their contract
of marriage is dated 27th May 1727, whereby Charles, his father, disponed
Kippendavie to Patrick and the heirs-male of the marriage. The contract
was confirmed by charter from John Stirling of Keir, the superior, dated
5th July 1734. Margaret Douglas died before 1757. The issue of this mar-
riage was six sons and three daughters — 1. Charles, born 14th May 1729.
2. Robert, born 5th November 1732. They must have died young, as their
younger brother Patrick succeeded. 3. Patrick, who succeeded. 4. Sylves-
ter, born 27th September 1737. 5. Robert, second of the name, born 25th
May 1739. They must have died young, as their younger brother John suc-
ceeded. 6. John, who succeeded his brother Patrick. 7. Margaret, born
1st October 1727. 8. Christian, born 12th April 1731. 9. Katherine, born
11th June 1736. She married Mr. Fortescue, and had one son and two
daughters — 1. Faithful Adrian. He was a captain in the 20th Regiment, and
died unmarried. 2. Ann, married, 1st, Brodie Hepworth, and had two sons —
Thomas and Faithful, who both died without issue ; and three daughters — 1. Ann
Elizabeth ; 2. Katherine Stirling ; 3. Margaret Douglas, who married Major Be-
thune, and had one son, who died young. Ann Fortescue married, 2dly, John
Taylor, and had a son, John Stirling, born 29th August 1802 ; married, 21st
April 1881, Harriet, daughter of John Waddilove of Thorpe Hall, Skipton, York-
shire, by whom he has issue — (1.) Emily Fortescue, born 28th June 1833 ; (2.)
Herbert, born 28th February 1835.
3. Katherine, married Mr. Cameron, merchant, Glasgow, and had two daughters,
Katherine, who married Mr. Nairne, and Mary, who married Mr. Walkinshaw,
and died in giving birth to her first child.
Patrick Stirling (IV.) died in the end of November 1745, and was suc-
ceeded by his eldest surviving son —
V. l. Patrick Stirling of Kippendavie. He was born on 28th January
1734, and he succeeded his father in November 1745. He was in Jamaica
in 1753, with Robert Stirling, son of James Stirling of Keir. As eldest son
1 Dunblane Parish Records.