William Stirling

Son of John Stirling of Kippendavie, and partner in Stirling, Gordon & Co. (q.v.).

1. Married first Elizabeth [sic]  Barrett Barrett (daughter of Henry Barrett 1762-1794), by whom he had two surviving sons who became merchants in Glasgow, William junior (who became in turn a partner in Stirling Gordon), and John. Died 1862. Cousin of Archibald Stirling of Keir & Cadder (q.v.).

2. Anthony Cooke shows him leaving an estate worth £20,427, including: insurance of £6,076 (with Scottish Widows and Scottish Amicable), balance with Stirling Gordon £8,689, sum due by John Stirling £4000, shares in St Mungo's Episcopal Church £21. Settled property in West Indies on his second son William. £2000 left to his widow.

William Fraser, The Stirlings of Keir, and their family papers (Edinburgh, 1858), 'The Stirlings of Kippendavie', pp. 103-114.

1. John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell, The old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry (2nd edn., Glasgow, James MacLehose & Sons, 1878) LXIII Kenmure; R. A. Barrett, The Barretts of JamaicaI gives his wife name as Eliza in the text but as Elizabeth in the genealogy.

2. Anthony Cooke, 'An elite revisited: Glasgow West India merchants, 1783-1877', Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 32.2 2012 pp. 127-165, at p. 164; Inventory SC 70/1/113/475; Will SC 70/4/82/59, both 01/09/1862.