James Stewart Earl of Moray
Replies: 9
Re: James Stewart Earl of Moray
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Posted: 7 Jan 2008 11:36PM GMT |
Classification: Query
With all due respect, I repeat that I think you need to focus on a much narrower course of research. It may well be that all of the people you have mentioned are somehow related, but in order to discover what that relationship might be, you need to start with one family line and investigate it until you encounter one or more of the others.
Your initial post asked about James Stewart, Earl of Moray and I responded because I did have some information on him and his family. I have suggested that you start with your gg gf, Robert Stewart McIntyre and his parents. You responded he was son of Patrick McIntyre and an unknown wife. Possible parents for Patrick are Archibald McIntyre and Eliza McDonald. Good start!
But then you go off on a tangent to the families of James Fenimore Cooper, Gov. Spotswood of VA and people who attended Patrick Henry’s marriage to his second wife. Then you bring in Pocahontas and John Rolfe being connected to the family of Thomas Jefferson and the Gist family being related to Oliver Cromwell, who you think was also related to King James (VI) I Stuart. And now you have moved on to the French and Indian War.
Most of these queries are better suited for other forums; and are not going to help you find your family or their connection to others in the cemetery of interest.
I will say that the French & Indian War was NOT fought because of the few people living in Mckeesport or elsewhere. It was the result of many causes, not the least of which was the control of the fur trade in the American colonies and control of the Ohio River. The French had already attacked an English post at Pickawillany in 1752, long before Braddock was killed at Fort Duquesne in 1755. Known as the French and Indian War here in America because the Indians mostly allied with the English against the French. In Europe, Prussia sided with England and Austria with France and it was known as the Seven Years War. I can assure you these nations had little or no concern for any individuals, it was all about territory, money and power.
BUT digressions such as that will not help you find what you are looking for.
Try to focus and work your way up each “known” family line of the people of interest in your cemetery. If they are indeed related you will discover how and to what degree.
Good luck!
Your initial post asked about James Stewart, Earl of Moray and I responded because I did have some information on him and his family. I have suggested that you start with your gg gf, Robert Stewart McIntyre and his parents. You responded he was son of Patrick McIntyre and an unknown wife. Possible parents for Patrick are Archibald McIntyre and Eliza McDonald. Good start!
But then you go off on a tangent to the families of James Fenimore Cooper, Gov. Spotswood of VA and people who attended Patrick Henry’s marriage to his second wife. Then you bring in Pocahontas and John Rolfe being connected to the family of Thomas Jefferson and the Gist family being related to Oliver Cromwell, who you think was also related to King James (VI) I Stuart. And now you have moved on to the French and Indian War.
Most of these queries are better suited for other forums; and are not going to help you find your family or their connection to others in the cemetery of interest.
I will say that the French & Indian War was NOT fought because of the few people living in Mckeesport or elsewhere. It was the result of many causes, not the least of which was the control of the fur trade in the American colonies and control of the Ohio River. The French had already attacked an English post at Pickawillany in 1752, long before Braddock was killed at Fort Duquesne in 1755. Known as the French and Indian War here in America because the Indians mostly allied with the English against the French. In Europe, Prussia sided with England and Austria with France and it was known as the Seven Years War. I can assure you these nations had little or no concern for any individuals, it was all about territory, money and power.
BUT digressions such as that will not help you find what you are looking for.
Try to focus and work your way up each “known” family line of the people of interest in your cemetery. If they are indeed related you will discover how and to what degree.
Good luck!