Paternal Family Tree: Stewart
Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Sheppard -1617
Around 20th August 1736 [her father] John Stuart 3rd Earl Bute [aged 23] and [her mother] Mary Wortley-Montagu Countess Bute [aged 18] were married. He the son of [her grandfather] James Stuart 2nd Earl Bute and [her grandmother] Anne Campbell Countess Bute [aged 50]. They were fifth cousins.
Around 1741 Mary Stuart Countess Lonsdale was born to John Stuart 3rd Earl Bute [aged 27] and Mary Wortley-Montagu Countess Bute [aged 22].
On 7th September 1761 James Lowther 1st Earl Lonsdale [aged 25] and Mary Stuart Countess Lonsdale [aged 20] were married. She the daughter of John Stuart 3rd Earl Bute [aged 48] and Mary Wortley-Montagu Countess Bute [aged 43].
On 8th April 1765 Harry Powlett 6th Duke Bolton [aged 44] and [her sister-in-law] Katherine Lowther Duchess of Bolton [aged 29] were married. He the son of Harry Powlett 4th Duke Bolton and Catherine Parry.
On 5th July 1765 Charles Powlett 5th Duke Bolton [aged 47] committed suicide at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia shooting himself in the head with a pistol. His brother Harry [aged 44] succeeded 6th Duke Bolton, 11th Marquess Winchester, 11th Earl Wiltshire, 11th Baron St John. [her sister-in-law] Katherine Lowther Duchess of Bolton [aged 29] by marriage Duchess Bolton.
On 12th November 1766 [her brother] John Stuart 1st Marquis of the Isle of Bute [aged 22] and [her sister-in-law] Charlotte Jane Windsor Marchioness Bute [aged 20] were married. He the son of [her father] John Stuart 3rd Earl Bute [aged 53] and [her mother] Mary Wortley-Montagu Countess Bute [aged 48]. They were half fifth cousin once removed.
Before 1781 [her brother-in-law] John Dawson 1st Earl Portarlington [aged 36] and [her sister] Caroline Stuart Countess Portarlington [aged 18] were married. She the daughter of [her father] John Stuart 3rd Earl Bute [aged 67] and [her mother] Mary Wortley-Montagu Countess Bute [aged 62].
On 24th May 1784 [her husband] James Lowther 1st Earl Lonsdale [aged 47] was created 1st Baron Lowther. Mary Stuart Countess Lonsdale [aged 43] by marriage Baroness Lowther.
On 24th May 1784 [her husband] James Lowther 1st Earl Lonsdale [aged 47] was created 1st Earl Lonsdale. Mary Stuart Countess Lonsdale [aged 43] by marriage Countess Lonsdale.
In 1785 [her brother-in-law] John Dawson 1st Earl Portarlington [aged 40] was created 1st Earl Portarlington. [her sister] Caroline Stuart Countess Portarlington [aged 22] by marriage Countess Portarlington.
On 10th March 1792 [her father] John Stuart 3rd Earl Bute [aged 78] died. His son [her brother] John [aged 47] succeeded 4th Earl Bute. [her sister-in-law] Charlotte Jane Windsor Marchioness Bute [aged 46] by marriage Countess Bute.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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On 6th November 1794 [her mother] Mary Wortley-Montagu Countess Bute [aged 76] died.
On 26th October 1797 [her husband] James Lowther 1st Earl Lonsdale [aged 61] was created 1st Viscount Lowther. Mary Stuart Countess Lonsdale [aged 56] by marriage Viscountess Lowther.
On 28th January 1800 [her brother] John Stuart 1st Marquis of the Isle of Bute [aged 55] and [her sister-in-law] Frances Coutts Marchioness Bute were married. She by marriage Marchioness of the Isle of Bute. He the son of [her father] John Stuart 3rd Earl Bute and [her mother] Mary Wortley-Montagu Countess Bute.
On 10th September 1800 [her sister-in-law] Margaret Lowther Countess Darlington [aged 72] died. She has a monument sculpted by Richard Cooke at St Mary's Church, Staindrop [Map] commissioned by her son William Henry Vane 1st Duke Cleveland [aged 34].
Margaret Lowther Countess Darlington: In 1728 she was born to Robert Lowther and Katherine Pennington. On 19th March 1757 Henry Vane 2nd Earl Darlington and she were married at London. He the son of Henry Vane 1st Earl Darlington and Grace Fitzroy Countess Darlington. On 6th March 1758 Henry Vane 1st Earl Darlington died. His son Henry succeeded 2nd Earl Darlington, 2nd Viscount Barnard, 4th Baron Barnard. She by marriage Countess Darlington.
On 24th May 1802 [her husband] James Lowther 1st Earl Lonsdale [aged 65] died. His third cousin once removed William [aged 44] succeeded 2nd Viscount Lowther, 2nd Baron Lowther. Augusta Fane Countess Lonsdale [aged 40] by marriage Viscountess Lowther.
On 20th January 1813 [her sister] Caroline Stuart Countess Portarlington [aged 50] died.
On 16th November 1814 [her brother] John Stuart 1st Marquis of the Isle of Bute [aged 70] died. His grandson John [aged 21] succeeded 2nd Marquis of the Isle of Bute, 5th Earl Bute, 2nd Earl of Windsor, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy of the Isle of Wight.
On 5th April 1824 Mary Stuart Countess Lonsdale [aged 83] died.
Cumbria and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. I propose to give you his results, with the aid of a map traced from the Ordnance Survey, (see Plate I). On that map is a farm house, called Brackenbyr, about 100 yards south of the railway station, and nearly opposite the Greyhound Inn, at Shap, which is on the east side of the high road, while the farm is on the west. Here Dr. Simpson thinks he could, in 1859, from tradition and from various indications, make out that there once was a stone circle, 400 feet in diameter, with a large stone in the centre. There is a legend of a huge stone which once stood here, and was cut up into seven pairs of "yat-stoops" (gate posts).1 From this circle at Brackenbyr, an avenue or double row of stones ran to the south and terminated in a stone circle, of which some five stones2, as well as three forming part of the avenue, are still to be seen on the west side of the L. and N. W. Railway, which, most unluckily, on its formation in 1844, passed over and destroyed the remains of the avenue, leaving only the eight stones just mentioned. The diameter of the circle was 30 yards3, and it is at a place called Shapsey, about half a mile to the south of Brackenbyr. With this paper is given, (Plate II) a reproduction of a drawing, made in 1775, by Lady Lowther, wife of Sir James Lowther, afterwards Earl of Lonsdale. This shows the avenue, and is taken from the Shapsey, or south end of it, looking north. Returning again to the Brackenbyr circle, Dr. Simpson makes out a single row of large stones (the huge pyramidal stones) running from that circle in a north-westerly direction, of which four stones remain at Karl Lofts4, about 200 yards north of the Greyhound Inn at Shap. Seven or eight others, including the Guggleby, are yet to be found, and tradition says they extended as far as Moor Divock. Dr. Simpson's restoration of the Shap Stones is reproduced here as Plate III, which gives a ground plan, while Plate IV gives his idea of the appearance presented by the single row of large stones (the huge pyramidal stones) running from the Brackenbyr circle in a north-westerly direction. We are inclined to think he shows far too many stones. Canon Greenwell appears to approve of Dr. Simpson's restoration: at any rate, he writes:—
The large series of standing stones at Shap, however, once consisting of at least a circle and an avenue, is now almost entirely destroyed; but from such parts of it as are left, and from old accounts and the traditional knowledge of the place, the Rev. Dr. Simpson, LL.D., has been enabled to reconstruct it.5
Note 1. The O.S. (six inch scale) shows one stone at Brackenbyr: this would be part of Dr. Simpson's large circle.
Note 2. The five stones, part of the destroyed circle, are shown on the O. S, (six inch scale), and are marked ' Druidical Circle ' in old English letters. The O. S. also shows a single stone at Force Bridge, (close to the east side of the high road, and just south of the water), and three stones about half way between Force Bridge and Brackenbyr; those would from part of the avenue. An isolated stone to the end of the railway is not éonformable.
Note 3. See Dr. Simpson's Paper, ut ante p. 28.
Note 4. Dr. Simpson uses the words 'Karl Lofts' in a two-fold sense, which is rather puzzling. Here he means the four stones north of the Greyhound Inn, at Shap, but in a passage which we have quoted from him at the beginning of this paper, he means the district south to Shap down to Shapsey.
Note 5. British Barrows,: Greenwell and Rolleston, pp. 381-2.
Kings Wessex: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 9 Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 7 Grand Daughter of King James V of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Stuart of Ardmaleish 
5 x Great Grandson of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Stuart 1st Baronet 6 x Great Grandson of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: Dugald Stuart 2nd Baronet 7 x Great Grandson of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Stuart 1st Earl Bute 8 x Great Grandson of King Robert II of Scotland
Grandfather: James Stuart 2nd Earl Bute 9 x Great Grandson of King Robert II of Scotland
father: John Stuart 3rd Earl Bute 6 x Great Grandson of King James V of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Archibald Campbell 7th Earl Argyll 4 x Great Grandson of King James I of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: Archibald Campbell 1st Marquess Argyll 5 x Great Grandson of King James I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Douglas Countess Argyll 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: Archibald Campbell 9th Earl Argyll 6 x Great Grandson of King James I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Douglas 7th Earl Morton 5 x Great Grandson of King James I of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Douglas Marchioness Argyll 6 x Great Granddaughter of King James I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Keith Countess Morton 5 x Great Granddaughter of King James I of Scotland
Great x 1 Grandfather: Archibald Campbell 1st Duke Argyll 4 x Great Grandson of King James V of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Stewart 3rd Earl of Moray Great Grandson of King James V of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Stewart 4th Earl of Moray 2 x Great Grandson of King James V of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Gordon Countess Moray 3 x Great Granddaughter of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Stewart Countess Argyll 3 x Great Granddaughter of King James V of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Home 1st Earl of Home
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Home Countess Moray 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Dudley Countess Home 
7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Grandmother: Anne Campbell Countess Bute 5 x Great Granddaughter of King James V of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Lionel Tollemache 1st Baronet 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Lionel Tollemache 2nd Baronet 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Cromwell 
7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Lionel Tollemache 3rd Baronet 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Stanhope 1st Baron Stanhope 
5 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stanhope Lady Talmash 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Macwilliams Baroness Stanhope
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tollemache Duchess Argyll 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Murray 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Murray 1st Earl Dysart
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Murray Duchess Lauderdale
Mary Stuart Countess Lonsdale 7 x Great Granddaughter of King James V of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 
8 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Sidney Montagu 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Harrington 
19 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 1st Earl Sandwich 10 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Pepys of Impington
Great x 3 Grandmother: Paulina Pepys
Great x 1 Grandfather: Sidney Wortley-Montagu 11 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Crew 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Crew 1st Baron Crew
Great x 4 Grandmother: Temperance Bray 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jemima Crew Countess Sandwich 12 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Waldegrave 
10 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jemima Waldegrave Baroness Crew 11 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sarah Higham
Grandfather: Edward Wortley-Montagu 12 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
mother: Mary Wortley-Montagu Countess Bute 10 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Pierrepont 1st Earl Kingston 
9 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Pierrepont of Thoresby 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Gertrude Talbot Baroness Pierrepont Holme Pierrepoint 
7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Pierrepont 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Harries aka Harris 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Harries aka Harris
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Gifford
Great x 1 Grandfather: Evelyn Pierrepont 1st Duke Kingston upon Hull 10 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Evelyn of West Dean
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Evelyn of Wiltshire
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Evelyn
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Coxe
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Coxe
Grandmother: Mary Wortley-Montagu née Pierrepont 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Feilding 1st Earl Denbigh 
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Feilding 1st Earl Desmond 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Susan Villiers Countess Denbigh 
8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Feilding 2nd Earl Desmond 3rd Earl Denbigh 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Michael Stanhope 5 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Bridget Stanhope Countess Desmond 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Read
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Fielding Countess Kingston upon Hull 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Carey 1st Earl Monmouth 
6 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Carey 2nd Earl Monmouth 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Trevannion Countess Monmouth
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Carey Countess Desmond and Denbigh 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Martha Cranfield Countess Monmouth
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sheppard