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- Of Petheric, it is related that he married Margaret Stewart, a direct descendant of the Stewart King Robert II. This is the exact lineage:
Margaret Stewart was the daughter of Charles Stewart of Ballintoy, who was the son of Ninian Stewart of Kilchattan and his wife Grisel. Ninian was the son of Sir James Stewart, who was the son of Sir Ninian Stewart, of Nether Kilmory; who was the son of Sir Ninian Stewart, born in 1460, Sheriff of Bute, and made Castelan of Rothesay by James IV. This Sir Ninian was the son of Sir ______ Stewart, Sheriff of Bute; who was the son of Sir James Stewart, Sheriff of Bute. Sir James was the son of Sir John Stewart, born in 1360 and died in 1449, who was Sheriff of Bute and who married Janett Semple of Eliotstown. Sir John was the son of King Robert II of Scotland.
There seems to be a flavour of romance hidden here. Back in Bute, in a previous century, the McCurdys had been unfairly crowded out of much of their lands by the Stewarts; as witness the Grant from the Scottish Crown in which the Stewarts participated so generously. Doubtless, or naturally, the best of feeling would not exist between the two families. Then, around 1640, came the religious controversy; and the Stewarts of Bute would, as a whole, be expected to side with their Royal cousins and adopt Episcopacy. But, as the struggle grew fiercer, it is known that a few of the Stewarts of Bute espoused the cause of their Chieftain, Argyle, and stepped into the ranks of the Presbyterians. Among these latter was this Charles Stewart; but when disaster crowded upon misfortune, he, with his family, escaped the slaughtering dragoons of Sir James Turner by having crossed over to Ireland a year or two previous to the going of Petheric. Here, in Ireland, Charles Stewart settled in Ballintoy. So it was only natural that Petheric, a stranger in a strange land, should seek out his former neighbour and make his new home beside the Stewarts. The proverb "Misfortune makes strange bedfellows" evidently had its literal fulfilment; and it did not take long, among those fellow refugees, for friendship to ripen into a warmer passion as regards that Scottish lassie Margaret Stewart. Very few weeks, it is evident, sufficed for their courtship, for the pressure of dates forces the conclusion that Petheric and Margaret were married in the summer of 1667. Possibly because some tenant was leaving for America, the farmstead at Ballintoy, known as the "Cairn," was vacant, and Petheric immediately took the lease and settled down on that property with his bride.
source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.
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1644 - 1747 (~ 103 years)
