The Sterling genealogy

THE STIRLINGS OF DRUMPELLIER 163
ling, his ancestor, with Robert Stirling, designated by Janet
Stirling, heiress of Cadder, to be her nearest male heir, he was
granted the representation and given their arms with supporters.
He married May 26, 1778, Anne Stirling, daughter of Sir Walter
Stirling, of Faskine, by his wife, Dorothy Willing. She died June
1, 1830. He died in 1823.
They had sixteen children
1 William Stirling, born Mar. 18, 1779; died unmarried in
1850.
2 Walter Stirling, born in 1780 ; died unmarried in 1864.
3, 4, and 5 Dorothy, Mary, and Mary, who died young.
X 6 John Stirling, born Oct. 20, 1786, of whom hereafter.
7 Eliza Stirling, died young.
8 Charles Stirling, born in 1789 ; married in 1827, Charlotte
Dorothea, daughter of Admiral Charles Stirling of
Woburn, in Surrey, England (q. v.). He acquired the
estate of Muiravonside in Linlithgowshire ; died Aug.
26, 1867; she died June 25, 1862.
Children
1 Andrew Stirling of Muiravonside, born in 1829;
married in 1864, Georgina Louisa, daughter of Sir
Henry Martin Blackwood, Bart. Andrew was a cap-
tain in the Royal Navy ; he sold Muiravonside to his
cousin, Thomas Mayne Stirling, in 1883. No issue.
2 Charles Stirling, born in 1831 ; captain in the
Royal Navy ; married in 1863, Selina, daughter of
Arthur Grote of the India Civil Service (brother of
George Grote, the historian), and has one son, Grote,
born in 1875; married in 1903, Mabel, daughter of
Dr. Richard Whish Brigstock, Royal Navy of Bey-
rout, in Syria.
3 Gen. Sir William Stirling, K.C.B., born Aug. 4,
1835. Educated at Edinburgh Academy and at the
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Served with
the Royal Army in the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny,
the China Expedition of 1860, and the Afghan
Campaign, 1878-1879; lieutenant of the Tower of
London ; married first, in 1864, Anne Douglas, daugh-
ter of Sylvester Douglas Stirling of Glenbervie (q. v.),
who died in 1867; married second, July 14, 1869,
Anna Christian, daughter of William Stirling, younger,
of Kippendavie (