This is the final post covering the grandchildren of Loyalist Walter Stewart by his third wife, Althea (Wetmore) (Craft) Stewart.

They had six children:

1. Elizabeth Ann, born c1804; died after 1848, when Harriet was reportedly born; married William Wetmore, 7 June 1823. William was reportedly born 4 September 1795; died 3 December 1853 in New Brunswick, Canada. However, I can’t find this family in 1851. They apparently lived in Saint John and that census is missing. I don’t know the source for these children, but John and Susanna both have Massachusetts death records naming their parents.

Children:

1. John W., born 1830, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada; died 9 November 1901, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; married Abigail Verrill, 16 October 1855, Portland, Cumberland, Maine. They had five children – Wallace E., Charles O., Charlotte E., Ulysses S. Grant and Alfred Thomas.
2. Charity Amelia, born 20 July 1832, New Brunswick, Canada; died 29 December 1917, Berkeley, Alameda, California; married William Puddington Wetmore. They had 6 children – Charles William, Frederick Ward, Mary J., Hattie Elizabeth, Lily May and William Nelson.
3. Susanna Jane, born 1835; died 12 February 1907, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; married John William Munroe, 3 October 1856, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. They had 5 children; Aaron William, Mary Elizabeth, Reuben Jesse, Harley titus and Charles Everett.
4. James Blakeney, born 8 March 1841, New Brunswick, Canada; died 28 August 1901, Spring Lake, Ottawa, Michigan; married Miriam Munroe, 1863, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. Miriam was born 1 March 1844, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada; died 12 August 1930, Fettysburg, Ottawa, Michigan. This family moved often with children born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Boston, Massachusetts, Cincinnati, Ohio, Liberty Township, Ohio, Hillsboro, Ohio and possibly Kentucky. They had 8 children – Samuel Ivan, Mary Adelaide, Miriam R., Annie Lyle, James Blakeney, Elizabeth Sarah, and Milton Thomas.
5. William Thomas, born 11 January 1844, New Brunswick, Canada; died 29 November 1926, Chicago, Cook, Illinois; married Sarah Susan Troutwine. They had 5 children – Carrie May, Frances Estella, Harriet A., Charles Quinn and Nellie Lou.
6. Harriet E., born c1848; no further information

2. Caleb James, born c1809; reportedly died 7 February 1878, but I can’t find him in any census after 1851; reportedly went by James; married Amy S. Golding, 13 November 1830. She was born c1830; died 19 March 1859.  In 1851, the family lived in Hampton, Kings County. If going by James, he may be the 1861 James Stewart, 49,  living in Sussex, Kings County, New Brunswick with wife Ellen, aged 28 and children John 8, James 7, William H. 5 and Mary E., also 5.

Children:

1. John Henry, born c1833; died after 1851; no further information
2. Charles, born c1835; died after 1851; no further information

3. Charles – I don’t know the source of attributing a son
Charles to Walter and Althea Stewart, but he apparently died young, unmarried and left no descendants.

4. Deborah Catherine, born c1808-1810, per census records; died 11 February 1873, probably Kings County, New Brunswick; married George Puddington, 16 May 1823, Kingston, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada. George was born 19 June 1805; died 8 November 1883 and is buried in Sussex, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada. The newspaper reports that George was 16 and Deborah 13 when they married!

The Kings County census records are not available on the LAC website, but this is a list of their supposed children, which I haven’t been able to verify.

Children:

1. Clarissa J., born 1825; died 1918; married Charles Williams, 3 July 1845, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. They had 8 children – Levinia, Malvenia M.G., Charlotte Annie, Melissa Ethelinda, Mary E., George Thomas Penn, Charles Edward, Frederick, and Burnham
2. James, born 1827; died 1853; no further information
3. Mary Ann, born 9 February 1830; reportedly died 1903, but I have no further information
4. Margaret, born 1833; died 19 February 1881, probably Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada; married William David McConchie, 16 February 1854, Kingston, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada. They had 8 children – Eliza, Phebe, Adelia, Anne A., Henrietta, William Gordon, Alice M. and Amy Alberta.
5. George H., born 1834; died 1896, probably Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada; married Phebe Brown. They had 9 children – Elizabeth Ann, Orland Herbert, William Ernest, George Clifford, Ruth, John Henry, Drucilla Phoebe, Eliza Jane and Gilbert.
6. Thomas Edwin, born 2 October 1837; died 2 October 1912, Rochester, Ulster, New York; married Rhoda A. Crowell, 11 November 1863. They had four children – Arthur Wesley, Harriet Stewart, Bessie Lillian and Harry Hudson.
7. Edmund, born 1 January 1840; died 1902; married Sarah A. Campbell. They had one child – Percy B.
8. Oscar Wellington, born 28 October 1842; died 20 October 1905; married Frances Jane Smith, 1 March 1866, Windsor, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada. They had ten children – Florence, Deborah Martha, Araminta, William Oscar, Edmund Kelly, Geoerge Arthur, Jennie Wetmore, Lucy Madeline, Emma Stewart and Katherine Stewart.
9. Benjamin, born 1845; died 1847
10. Alfred E., born 1850; died 1851
11. Deborah Catherine, born 7 July 1854, Clifton, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada; married (1) David Erasmus Wetmore, 30 June 1875 (2) Samuel Codner, 1897, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. David and Deborah Wetmore had four children – Oscar Wainwright, Irene Beatrice, Eugenia Mildred and Mabel Evelyn. Samuel and Deborah Codner had no known children.

5. Althea Jane Wetmore, born c1813; died 4 February 1875, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada and called widow of David in the Saint John Daily News; married (1) William Branscombe, 5 April 1841 (2) David Ross, c1853.

Children (Branscombe):

1, Lavinia A., born c1841; at home with David and Jane Ross in 1861; no further information
2. Charles Edwin, born c1842; died after 1881; married Elizabeth (MNU), c1870. They had 4 children – Abigail, Weethy, Anna and Mary
3. John Walker, born January 1846; died 12 August 1863, aged 17 years, 7 months.
4. Elizabeth Ann, born December 1850; likely died young as she is not at home in 1861.

Children (Ross):

1. George, born c1854; probably Kings, New Brunswick, Canada; died after 1871; no further record
2. Frederick, born c1857, probably Kings, New Brunswick, Canada; died after 1871; no further record

6. Esther Susannah Wetmore, born 11 April 1815, Kingston, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada; died 29 August 1908, Richmond, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada; married Thomas William Golding, 13 January 1835, probably Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.

Children:

1. Charles Stephen, born 31 March 1836; died 12 September 1871, Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada; apparently unmarried.
2. Rebecca Ruth, born 1838; died 1862; apparently unmarried.
3. Frances Elizabeth, born 30 May 1840; died 28 February 1928, McAdam, York, New Brunswick, Canada; married (1) William Dyer, 17 February 1863, Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada (2) John E. Casey, 17 August 1886, York, New Brunswick, Canada. Frances apparently had no children with either William Dyer or John Casey.
4. Thomas William, born 6 October 1842; died 14 October 1927, McAdam, York, New Brunswick, Canada; married Ellen Jane O’Neill, 4 October 1873, Houlton, Aroostook, Maine. They had 9 children – Angus Victor, Charles Albert, Amelia Frances, Alice Maud, Ruth Rebecca, Mary Pearl, John Frederick, George William and Thomas Allen.
5. Harriet E., born 12 May 1847; 27 July 1927, McAdam, York, New Brunswick, Canada; married (1) Joseph Crawford, c1872 (2) George Cook, 15 February 1922, York, New Brunswick, Canada. Joseph and Harriet had 2 children – Mary Ann and Ernest S.
6. Esther Ann, born February 1849; died 23 June 1929, McAdam, York, New Brunswick, Canada; married John Lenahan, 26 December 1880, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. They may have divorced and had no children. No further information.
7. George Marshal, born 3 May 1850; died 4 August 1936, McAdam, York, New Brunswick, Canada; married Octavia Lilley, 16 August 1888. They had one son, Thomas William.
8. James Franklin, born 6 February 1855, Carleton New Brunswick, Canada; died 18 September 1936, McAdam, York, New Brunswick, Canada; married Augusta Amelia Lovelace, c1880. They had 6 children: Mabel Alice, Althea Jane, Ida May, Mary Elizabeth, Augusta Ann and James Adelbert.
9. Charlotte Amelia, born 18 July 1859, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada; died 20 March 1946, Cumberland Bay, Waterborough, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada; married Thomas Warren Letson, 1894, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. They had 9 children – Bertha E., Lena Louise, Robert Roy, George William, Annie Hazel, Minnie Pearl, Gladys Lillian, Viola Octavia and Birkett Elwood.
10. John Frederick, born 8 November 1861; died 11 March 1863, Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
11. Emily Jane, born 25 September 1863Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada; died 1940, Massachusetts; married Alexander Wellington McCullah, 11 April 1887, New Brunswick, Canada. They had 3 children – Rollie R., Mary Esther and Robert W.

As you can see from all these grandchildren and great grandchildren, Walter Stewart has many descendants today. If you are one of them, please leave a comment.

If you have been following my posts with all the updated information about Loyalist Walter Stewart, you now know that it seems quite likely that Elizabeth Briggs may have either had no children or had none that survived to adulthood.

Elizabeth herself had died by 1799, perhaps years before that date, when Walter Stewart and wife Sarah (MNU) sold land in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada to Nathaniel Golding.

Because Walter has no known children born before 1785, it may be that he married Sarah (MNU) shortly after arriving in New Brunswick in 1783. Therefore, I am tentatively assuming that Walter and Sarah (MNU) are the parents of the elder set of Stewart children.

Today, I will add information about their grandchildren. To keep the numbering system clear, the names of Walter’s children are in blue. Grandchildren are in black font.

1. John, born 1785, New Brunswick, Canada; died 28 November 1869, Mars Hill, Aroostook County, Maine; married Catherine Carlisle, daughter of Loyalist Robert Carlisle, on 28 December 1814, Sussex, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada

Children:

1. Son, born 1815-1820; in 1820 census
2. William, born 7 July 1817, New Brunswick, Canada; died 15 Jan 1899, Topsfield, Washington, ME; married (1) Eunice (2) Sarah L. Crabtree, 7 August 1864, Princeton, Washington, ME. William had one daughter, Carrie M.
3. Charles Augustus, born 1 July 1822, Charlotte, Washington, ME; died 24 Nov 1894, Meddybemps, Washington, ME; married Elida Ann Hicks, about 1850. Elida was his first cousin. Charles and Elida were the parents of Wallace Newmarch, Permelia M., Felicia, Harry Weston, Melissa E., Carey M., William C. and Annie Maude. Permelia, Felicia and Carey all died in childhood.
4. Walter, born 15 Aug 1824, Charlotte, Washington, ME; died 13 August 1853, Bridgewater, Aroostook, ME; apparently never married.
5. Robert Nelson, born 31 August 1826, Charlotte, ME; died between October 1869 (the time when daughter Pethiah would have been conceived) and 7 December 1875 when Eliza is called Mrs. Roach; married Eliza Augusta Grass, 16 March 1860, Charlotte, ME. Eliza married (2) James H. Roach, probably 1870-1875 in New Brunswick, Canada (3) John McNutt, 30 December 1896, Vanceboro, Washington, Maine. Robert and Eliza were the parents of four children – Israel D., Elerda (daughter), Clara E., and Pethiah Ellsmore.
6. Nancy Ann, born 19 July 1827, Charlotte, ME; died 7 April 1909, Easton, Aroostook, ME; married Thomas Jenkins. Nancy and Thomas Jenkins also had a large family – Althea, Elvira Louise, Margaret, Howard, Appleton, Silas E., John, Robert Elcander, Eleanor R., Alec W., Olive L. and Hannah.
7. Mary, born 29 July 1828, Charlotte, ME; died 2 October 1907, Oakfield, Aroostook, ME; married Joel Hamilton Howard. Joel and Mary Howard were the parents of Walter, Martha Ann, David Danforth, Lydia Adeline, Emma and Rosa.
8. Abigail, born 25 August 1831, Charlotte, ME; no further information and likely died young.
9. Polly, born 10 October 1833, Charlotte, ME; died 10 November 1833, Charlotte, ME
10. Myrta, born 21 January 1835, Charlotte, ME; died before 1850
11. George A., born 5 February 1838, Charlotte, ME; died 6 July 1892, Bridgewater, Aroostook, ME; unmarried
12. Daughter, born about 1839; died after 1840 but before 1850
13. Eunice, born 31 August 1841; died after 1850; no further record.

2. Walter, born about 1788; reportedly died 1868, Cardwell, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada; married Catherine Myers on 26 March 1814, Sussex, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada

Children:

1. Elizabeth (Betsey Jane), born c1816; died 15 October 1845, Poverty Hall, Hampton Parish, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada; apparently unmarried.
2. James, born c1818; died August 1858; married Lucinda Robinson, 5 August 1847, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. James and Lucinda had two children, Jane and Eliza.
3. William H., born c1820; died 20 March 1891, Cardwell Parish, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada; married Eliza Graves, 24 December 1853. William and Eliza had four children, Eliza, Marshal, Willie and Annie and one adopted son, perhaps Alexander Kilpatrick, living with the Family in 1871.
4. Ann, born 1826, Penobsquis, Cardwell Parish, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada; no further record.
5. Mary, born c1828; no further record.
6. Sarah, born c1831; died after 1881 census; married William M. Clain, c1856. They had three children, Florence, Ida May and Percy Evans.

3. Walter, born June 1789, New Brunswick, Canada; died April 1870, Mars Hill, Aroostook, Maine; perhaps married a Graves. No further info and I can’t find him in any U.S. or Canadian census.

4. Mary, born c1792; died 26 July 1857, Harwich, Kent, Ontario, Canada; married Elisha Stover, 16 August 1814, Sussex, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada.

Children:

1. William Henry, born c1813, Shediac, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada; died 1898, Raleigh, Kent, Ontario, Canada; married Ellen before 1861 census when the family lived in Raleigh. Ellen may be a second wife, as children were Charles 16, Mary Jane 14, Alice 15, Cordelia 16 and Eliza Ann 12, which appears to be a blended family.
2. Peter, born c1814; died 22 June 1879; buried at Springfield Cemetery, Elgin, Ontario, Canada; married Elizabeth Seymore, c1835. Elizabeth died 15 November 1867 and is buried with Peter. Peter and Elizabeth had seven children, George, Jesse, Hannah, Peter, Mary A., Susannah and Edward.
3. Eliza Ann, born 6 May 1815, Shediac, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada; died 1885; Upham, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada; married James Henry Gray, 29 July 1832, Shediac, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. They had eleven children, James Henry, Mary Ann, George Hiram, Sarah Jane, Bathsheba R., Abraham, Benjamin Cecil, William Josiah Frances, Reuben, Rhoda Matilda and Alberta Eliza.
4. John Stewart, born c1828; living in Harwich, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1861. He was a drover and unmarried at that time. Not found in 1871.
5. James Alfred, born c1830; died 20 March 1875; buried at Pardoville Union Cemetery, Chatham-Kent Municipality, Ontario, Canada; married Almira Pardo (1831-1899). They have seven children – James Walter, William Alex, Alfred Ernest L. Albert, Jasper Cyril, Effa Edna, Amassa Elvira and Emma Celesta.
6. George Hiram, born c1835; working as a laborer in Harwich, Kent, Ontario in 1861; unmarried. Not found in 1871.

5. Ann, born c1795; died 19 August 1824; buried at Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Sussex Corner, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada; married John Prebble, 30 June 1819.

Child:

1. Edward, said to have removed to Nova Scotia, Canada, but I haven’t found any trace of him in census records.

This concludes the grandchildren of Walter Stewart by his elder set of children. One more post is coming up about descendants of his second set of children with Althea (Wetmore) (Craft).

Two days ago, I shared updated information about Loyalist Walter Stewart, my 4X great grandfather after making contact with a Canadian cousin, Richard Thorne.

Not only has Richard graciously given permission to share his research, but I’ve been able to add a bit more about some of Walter’s children and grandchildren.

Walter married (3) Althea Wetmore Craft, widow of Reuben Craft between 1801, when Reuben died, and 1804, the tentative birth year of their first known child.

Althea was reportedly born 19 May 1771, Rye, Westchester, New York; died 23 July 1834, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. I don’t know the source of her birth and death dates. However, her death date may well have come from the same Hampston Anglican Church record as that of her husband, Walter.

Children:

1. Elizabeth Ann, born c1804; last reported child born in 1848, so she died sometime after that birth; married William Wetmore, 7 June 1823, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. Unfortunately, 1851 census records for Saint John, New Brunswick are missing, as are the 1861 returns. William reportedly was born 4 September 1795 and died 3 December 1853 in Saint John.
2. Charles – I can’t find a source for including this child, but he apparently died young. Not found in the 1851 census.
3. Caleb James, born c1809; died 7 February 1878. He went by James; married Amy S. Golding, 13 November 1830, New Brunswick, Canada. She was born c1812; died 19 March 1859, aged about 47 years old.
4. Deborah Catherine, born c1810; died after 1871 census; married George Puddington, 16 May 1823, Kingston, Kings New Brunswick, Canada. He was born 19 June 1805; died after 1871 census. Both are last found in the 1871 census of Norton, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada (Source: Library Archives Canada online).
5. Esther Susannah; born c1807 based on 1871 census, but 3 April 1815 per gravestone in Anglican Church Cemetery, Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada; died 29 August 1908, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada; married Thomas William Golding, 13 January 1835. He was born 14 April 1810; died 11 June 1886, per gravestone at Anglican Church Cemetery, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada; baptized 29 April 1814.
6. Althea Jane W., born c1813; married (1) William Branscombe, 5 April 1841. He was born c1813; died before 1861 census; (2) David Ross, before 1861 census, when Lavinia and John Branscombe, ages 19 and 14, are living in the Ross home. Althea went by Jane.

Stay tuned for greatly expanded information on the grandchildren of Loyalist Walter Stewart.