Hello.
I have been searching for the correct birth information for my many G's Great Grandfather. His name is Quintin Stewart and I know he was a Tailor in Maybole Ayrshire from the documents of his daughter JENNET STEWART
11/03/1777
Maybole
Parents:
QUINTINE STEWART/AGNES CRAWFORD
Both her birth and death documents list father Quintin as a Tailor in Maybole. As I search SP site all these many months the only Quintine Stewart (under any spelling variation) I can find only 4 in all of Scotland...all from Ayrshire and only one date-appropriate for having Jennet Stewart in 1777 and that is:
QUINTIN STEWART
12/02/1754
Dailly
Parent:
David Stewart.
Countless people have Quintin Stewart , Tailor of Maybole in their trees but he is always listed as born in Maybole 1747 with no fixed date. There is no such entry under any spelling that I have been able to find in 1747 or any time close...except for the 1754 Dailly Quintin Stewart. For that one I have acquired many documents related such as all his siblings births etc. I'll get to that later.
When researching Quintin Stewart one of the first things I found was reference to a trial in Ayrshire whereby a Tailor from Maybole was put on the witness stand. It was all related to potential involvement in Knights Templar ritual activities by local Freemasons. The reason I believe this was my Grandfather is because though the trial was in 1800 the events happened several years before , eliminating almost all the other know Quintin Stewarts from Scotland that were listed on SP.
More par-
ticularly the said John Andrew and Robert Ramsay above complained on,
or one or other of them, being members of the said association, did at May-
bole aforesaid, on the 22d of August 1796, at a meeting held by the said
illegal association, and at which the said John Andrew acted as Master or
Preses, wickedly and feloniously administer or cause to be administered to
Quintin Stewart, tailor in Maybole aforesaid, an oath or engagement bind-
ing him ' to conceal and not to reveal or discover the secrets of the Order
of Knight Templars, murder and treason not excepted,' or an oath or en-
gagement of a similar import. Further, the said John Andrew and Robert
Ramsay above complained on, or one or other of them, did at Maybole
aforesaid, on the 17th of December 1796, or upon one or other of
the days of that month, or of the month of November immediately pre-
ceding, or of January in the year 1797 immediately following, at a
meeting held by the said illegal association, at which the said John Andrew
above complained on acted as Master or Preses, wickedly and feloniously
administer or cause to be administered to William Hamilton, mason in
Maybole aforesaid, an oath or engagement binding him ' to conceal and
not to reveal or discover the secrets of the Order of the Knights
Anyhow leaving aside the trial stuff and whether that is the same Quintin Stewart, Tailor of Maybole. I was hoping that others could help and nail down if the 1754 Quintin Stewart is my Grandpa or is there really a secret 1747 Quintin that many have in their tree's with no birth date info. In those trees the parents are John Stewart and Agnes McLinteen (a name I cannot find in Scotland at all).
What I know and have documents for so far...
Birth of daughter Jennet Stewart and siblings
Marriage of daughter Jennet to John Orr
Death of above Jennet Stewart
Death cert of Quintin Stewart (only says "old" and it was 1823)
Things I don't know:
When was Quintin Stewart born if not the 1754 birth?
Where is his marriage doc to Agnes Crawford
Who are his parents (If David Stewart from Dailly is not his father)
Attached is the birth cert of Jennet Stewart in 1777 that mentions Quintin the Tailor.
Any help finding or confirming Quintin's birth and parents greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance
Alan