John Stewart of Bigton (-1661)

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Parents
Father:1James Stewart of Graemsay (-1629)
Mother:2Helen Monteith (-)
Spouses and relationship events
Married:31622Grizel Sinclair (-)
Children
Children with Grizel Sinclair:
Laurence Stewart of Bigton (-11 July 1703), Commissioner of Supply for Zetland4
David Stewart (-), writer5
Margaret Stewart (-)6
James Stewart (-)7
Katherine Stewart (-)8
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Events
Died:91661
Personal Info
He acquired a good deal of land in Dunrosness from Laurence Sinclair of Goat (his brother-in-law) in 1634.10
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Sources

1 John H. Ballantyne, Shetland Documents 1612-1637: (Lerwick: The Shetland Times Ltd., 2016), No. 1576, p. 596-97.
2 Henry Paton and Henry M. Paton, Orkney and Shetland Records vol. III, Orkney and Shetland Sasines vol. II: Diplomatarium Orcadense et Hialtlandense (: The Viking Society for Northern Research, ), No. 121, p. 94-95.
3 Roland William Saint-Clair, The Saint-Clairs of the Isles: Being a History of the Sea-Kings of Orkney and their Scottish Successors of the Sirname of Sinclair (Auckland: H. Brett, General Printer and Publihsher, 1898), The Sinclairs of Goat, p. 174-75.
4 Francis J. Grant, The County Families of the Zetland Islands: Being Genealogies of Local Families Compiled from Public Records and Other Sources (Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1893), Stewart of Bigtoun no. II, p. 294-95.
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