The Sterling genealogy

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early genealogical writers have supposed that Henry
de Strevelin, youngest son of David, Earl of Huntington,
the brother of King William the Lion (a Scotch king who
died in 1214) was the progenitor of the Stirling family of Scot-
land. One of the earliest writers on the subject, John Fairbain,
author of the " History of the Drummonds," winch was written
1 This history of Stirling of Keir and of a number of other houses of the family of
Stirling in Scotland are taken mainly from William Eraser's "The Stirlings of Keir and
their family papers," the principal authority upon the family, and whose work is here
given entire, and is practically a reprint.
This work was undertaken and issued at the instance of William Stirling of Keir,