John Stirling of Kippendavie

John Stirling of Kippendavie. Second son of Patrick [Anthony Cooke shows William] Stirling, 4th of Kippendavie and his wife Margaret Douglas. In Jamaica in 1776 when he inherited the Keir entail on the death of his elder brother Patrick. Married Mary, second daughter of William Graham of Airth and Ann Stirling of Ardoch, 30/04/1781. Seven sons and six daughters, including William (1787-1862) and Charles of Gargunnock, partners in Stirling, Gordon and Co. (both of whom q.v.). A portrait of John Stirling and his youngest daughter Jean Wilhelmina by Henry Raeburn is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/john-stirling-of-kippendavie-17421816-and-his-youngest-da196622 [accessed 24/09/2015].

1. Anthony Cooke shows John Stirling leaving an estate of £146,063, including balance in Stirling Gordon £57,396; debtors (John Gordon, the late George Houston of Johnstone, William MacDowall of Garthland etc.) £23,249; and English estate (3% annuities, 5% navy stock, Bank of England stock) £47,612.

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

1. 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; CC 6/5/33/499.