I believe that religious affiliation of our colonial ancestors from Ulster, was greatly influenced by "availability" of choice. My earliest Stewarts, Joseph and Mary, were members of a Methodist group in Newberry, SC. I don't remember mention of Methodist churches of Ulster, 1750 -1800. Dick Stewart Carefree, AZ On 3/1/2014 1:00 AM, Stewart-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > *********************************** > To reply to the posts in the Digest, please open a new message and address it to stewart@rootsweb.com > ---------------------------------- > Please visit Clan Stewart in America's web site: http://www.clansstewart.org > ------------------------------------ > Need to talk about Administrative matters? Contact the Admin at stewart-admin@rootsweb.com Do not send administrative items to the list -- it interferes with the flow and such matters are off topic for the list. > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: absolum stewart/1770 (Jacob Stewart) > 2. Re: Stewarts of Killeshandra, or Cavan County 1700s'/1800s' > (gc-gateway@rootsweb.com) > 3. Re: absolum stewart/1770 (gc-gateway@rootsweb.com) > 4. ADMIN NOTE --> Roll Call -- be sure to change the subject > when you post! (Lauren Boyd McLachlan) > 5. Re: Stewarts of Killeshandra, or Cavan County 1700s'/1800s' > (Barbara) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:22:09 -0500 > From: "Jacob Stewart" <jlstewartj936@embarqmail.com> > Subject: Re: [STEWART] absolum stewart/1770 > To: <stewart@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <6C9A65496B034623AC579DF5526B505D@JacobPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > In the 1966 book "The James Stewart Family" by Florence S. Dickerson wrote a > fair amount about Absolum Stewart, son of Capt. Ralph and Mary Elliot > Stewart. She stated he was born about 1770, was the 2nd child of Capt. > Ralph and Mary Elliot Stewart. Absolum married 1st. Susannah Smith 2nd. > Tabithia Clay Their 11 child was James born 1804. Dickerson states that > James married 1st Jemina Goode in 1821, 2nd Eda Skidmore on Feb. 2, 1832. > James and Eda had a son James born 1840. > > Stanley C. Browning's "Tracking the Pioneers", a history and genealogy of > Capt. Ralph Stewart and his descendants, (available at > http://www.lulu.com/shop) gives James as born about 1799 in Virginia, that > he married Amanda Crank, and died Feb. 2, 1872 in Trigg County Kentucky. > Browning states the it was erroneously reported that this James married > Jemima Goode. He does not list any children to the union of James and > Amanda Crank Stewart. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 2:09 PM > To: STEWART@rootsweb.com > Subject: [STEWART] absolum stewart/1770 > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: karenstewart686 > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.stewart/9960/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > does any one have any info on him? did he have a son james r who married > nancy Thompson thanks > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would > like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and > respond on the board. > > <br> > > > > > ********************************* > PLEASE PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION to the address fields when you are sending or > replying to list mail. > ---------------------------------- > Please visit Clan Stewart in America's web site: > http://www.clansstewart.org > ------------------------------------ > Looking for Scottish games in your area? Visit http://www.scottishinfo.org > _______________________________________________ > STEWART mailing list > STEWART@rootsweb.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > STEWART-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:40:53 -0000 > From: "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [STEWART] Stewarts of Killeshandra, or Cavan County > 1700s'/1800s' > To: <STEWART@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <1393576859.14261@rootsweb.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: mkyritsi > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.stewart/9784.5.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > Chances are pretty good that the Stewarts at least were Presbyterians, or at least Protestants, ie Church of Ireland, but I don't know about the Crangles. If they intermarried, they probably are too. Happily, those records are generally better than the Catholic ones. > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. > > <br> > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:51:33 -0000 > From: "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [STEWART] absolum stewart/1770 > To: <STEWART@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <1393591895.31088@rootsweb.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: karenstewart686 > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.stewart/9960.1.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > he was born in va by capt ralph stewart and tabith clay one thing I found was james born in 1817 in cabell co. va and anorher shows that james was born in 1799 james is my husbands 3 greatgrandfather im trying to do a family tree and james (1817)fits my tree any info would be helpful thanks karen > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. > > <br> > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:24:34 -0800 > From: Lauren Boyd McLachlan <confido@gmail.com> > Subject: [STEWART] ADMIN NOTE --> Roll Call -- be sure to change the > subject when you post! > To: stewart@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <CALR2A0EZ3WSQTWsDGvUe13Asq5A_gQwu6-OAt+DFAqkUA1eHGQ@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear Stewart Researchers: > > There are HUNDREDS of people subscribed to this list. However, it seems > that since the gateway from the Stewart message board has opened, you > subscribers to the list RARELY post. I see more spam sent to my Admin > address to check and see if it is valid, than email with Stewart genealogy. > > It is likely that you have missed the opportunity to connect with a cousin > also researching your line, because you have not posted. > > Consider -- when was the last time you posted? You can actually search the > archiver for your address (don't forget to also check your old email > addresses!) and the Stewart list to see all of your posts. You can find > the last time you posted and easily narrow it down by inserting a year > until you find the year you last posted... 2013... 2012, etc. I last > posted in September of 2013. > > Look here for the search engine. This can be used for ALL the lists at > Rootsweb. > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > > Have you learned something new about your line? Have you discovered you > were barking up the wrong tree? Have you more to share? More to learn? > Still frustrated with the same old brick wall? Need encouragement to > check again where you have already looked, or come to the point you are not > sure where to pick up the trail? > > Have you ventured to Facebook and joined the groups there? Well, they are > great for sharing and chatting for all sorts of things. However, for your > genealogy, Facebook is not a genealogical archive sort of place. Your > queries posted there are good in the moment. They will not be found by > cousins looking for information years from now... let alone months or weeks > from now. > > Rootsweb messages are archived "forever." Benson Wills began this list > June 1996. Jim Penterman was the list admin after Benson and Jim turned > over the list to me on September 21, 2002. I have been the Admin for over > 11 years now... and I am not even a Stewart! Ok... I am a Boyd and we are > cousins going waaaaaay back. Still and all, I administer this list and > read every single message to ensure that you have a good experience. Admins > do a lot of duties behind the scenes that subscribers never hear of and > have no awareness. Please reward my efforts by making good use of the > list! I look to the list mail every single day. (Well, unless I am out of > town, my connection down, etc. However, other than that... yes... EVERY > day!) > > We have nearly 18 years worth of posts! Have you searched the archives to > see if any are connected to YOUR research? Have you browsed to see the > history of the Stewarts in the archives? Are you aware that quite > regularly there were 1,000 or more subscribers to this list? > > > Please sound off. Check in. Post a query. Respond to a query. Right > here. Right on the list. Don't wait for others to begin. Do it. Yes, > you. Now. You just might get a juicy clue of where to go next. > > I am challenging EACH of you to post. Pledge to yourself to come out of > lurkdom and be active. As I have called for a "roll call" -- please be > sure to change the subject and make it personal to your query. JUICY > subject lines catch more attention. Include the name, date, location in > the subject. Put one family/generation in each post. IF you need to do a > "data dump" with generations and tons of people --- reply to your own > message with the burning questions -- one generation/family at a time. > > If you find that you are inundated with mail --- don't unsubscribe! Change > to the digest version. Email me if you need assistance. The > Stewart-admin@rootsweb.com email goes to two of my addresses -- expect to > hear either from the one showing as having sent this message or my other > Admin address of ListsMonster@gmail.com be sure to put them on your accept > list! > > The all time largest number of posts to this list was 416 in August 2005. > The low was 13 in January 2013. > > In closing I will share one of the list messages from one of the long time > and very active members. Teresa. She has contributed an extreme amount of > Stewart information and help on this list. She's taking a rest from it, > but her words... are still priceless! > _____________________________________ > > *From:* teresa stuart > *Subject:* slow lists lately????????? > *Date:* Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:36:42 -0700 (PDT) > > Hi all, > Looks like the lists have been slow for a while now. Let`s all get the lard > out and post our lines, put some interest back , or > whatever................. > Best, > Teresa Stuart de Rios > _____________________________________ > > > Yours Aye, > > Lauren Boyd McLachlan > Stewart List Admin since 2002 > Rootsweb Volunteer List Admin since 1996 > 100+/- lists, 238 Boards > Ancestry Volunteer Admin since 2000 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:03:27 -0500 > From: Barbara <barbstewp@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: [STEWART] Stewarts of Killeshandra, or Cavan County > 1700s'/1800s' > To: "stewart@rootsweb.com" <stewart@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <48028E2C-A60C-4303-BD22-76924040DE3F@verizon.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I have Stewarts near Ballyshannon that were COI and Presbyterian . I have an Anthony Stewart that was in Killeshandra. But as everyone knows every family has a Robert, James, William and John. I have this Anthony plus a George, if anyone comes across an Anthony would love to know > Barbara > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Feb 26, 2014, at 2:22 PM, "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> >> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. >> >> Author: mharcrow48 >> Surnames: >> Classification: queries >> >> Message Board URL: >> >> http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.stewart/9784.5/mb.ashx >> >> Message Board Post: >> >> Does anyone know what religion the Crangle's or Stewart's were? I have spoken with researchers and I will need to go to the parish records. Would make the search alot easier if I knew what religion they were. >> >> Important Note: >> The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. >> >> <br> >> >> >> >> >> ********************************* >> PLEASE PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION to the address fields when you are sending or >> replying to list mail. >> ---------------------------------- >> Please visit Clan Stewart in America's web site: http://www.clansstewart.org >> ------------------------------------ >> Looking for Scottish games in your area? 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