The Sterling genealogy

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6 Margaret Stirling ; died at Keir in June, 1784.
7 Marion Stirling, born at Cadder, June 12, 1774; she
kept house at Keir for her brothers James and
Archibald for fifty years, and died there, unmarried,
Mar. 1, 1842, and was buried at Lecropt.
8 Jean Stirling, born at Cadder, July 2, 1775 ; died at
Bromley, Kent, Sept. 7, 1855.
Children by second marriage:
9 William Stirling, born at Keir, Aug. 23, 1789. He
entered the First King's Dragoon Guards in 1810 ;
was a captain in 1815, and was engaged at the
Battle of Waterloo. He retired in 1818. He
married first, Mary, daughter of John Anderson,
a merchant in London, and had one son
William Stuart Stirling-Crawfurd, born Nov.
29, 1819, of Milton. He assumed the name of
Crawfurd on inheritance from his grandaunt, Mrs.
Margaret Stuart Rae Crawfurd of Milton. Win.
S. Stirling-Crawfurd, J. P., D.L., County Lanark,
Lieut. Col. First Lanark Artillery. He married,
Jan. 22, 1876, Catharine, Dowager Duchess of
Montrose and daughter of John, Second Lord
Decies.
Capt. William Stirling married second, in 1822,
Anne Charlotte Maitland, daughter of Sir Alexander
Charles Maitland-Gibson of Cliftonhall,
Bart., and had by her (who died Sept. 17, 1875)
James Stirling Stirling-Stuart, born in 1825, and
Helen Maitland Stirling. James S. Stirling-Stuart
succeeded to the estate of Castlemilk in 1828 upon
the death of his grandaunt, Mrs. Margaret Stuart
Rae Crawfurd of Milton. He was a captain of
the King's Dragoon Guards ; married at Dublin,
June 1, 1852, Harriet Boswell Erskine, second
daughter of Matthew Fortescue of Belvidere, Dublin.
Had a son and five daughters
William James Stirling-Crawfurd-Stuart, born
May 9, 1854, now of Castlemilk. The estate of
CASTLEMILK comprises 2137 acres, with an
annual income of £3300. Address, Castlemilk,
Lanarkshire.
Erskine Mary Katharine; married Aug. 2,
1875, Charles Shipley Gordon, third son of J. Gor-