How Vicki and Roger are connected to both the Scottish and English Monarchy.
JAMES STEWART V KING of SCOTS (1512-1542) Wiki: Stewart-2313
VICKI’S FIRST DEGREE of CONNECTION
Jean Stewart (1529-1588): his daughter. Wiki: Stewart-10676
Jean was Mary, Queen of Scots elder half-sister by a dozen years. Both were daughters of James V King of Scotland; Jean’s mother was Elizabeth Bethune, Mary’s mother was Marie Guise.
Jean Stewart married Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll in April 1554, however the marriage was not a happy one and the Earl had several mistresses and 3 or 4 illegitimate children. He eventually succeeded in divorcing Jean on the grounds of desertion and she was excommunicated from the church. Jean bore no children.
VICKI’S SECOND DEGREE of CONNECTION
Archibald Campbell Fifth Earl of Argyll (1538-1573): her husband. Wiki: Campbell-5991
Archibald Campbell, the 5th Earl of Argyll was a Scottish nobleman and influential figure in 16th-century Scottish politics, during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the early part of James VI. He divorced his first wife, Jean Stewart in 1573.
Argyll was tied to the assassinations of both David Rizzio in 1566 and Lord Darnley in 1567. He was, however, horrified by Queen Mary’s marriage to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell. He joined with Moray and other Protestant leaders in fighting Mary and Bothwell in that year, leading to the capture of the Queen at Carberry Hill, but broke with his former allies over the question of deposing the Queen.
In 1568 Mary escaped from prison and the Earl of Argyll became the leader of the Queen’s Party and led Mary’s army in the defeat at Langside that year. He continued to champion the Queen’s cause following her flight to England. A busy lad who died young!
VICKI’S THIRD DEGREE of CONNECTION
Elizabeth “Elspeth” Campbell (abt 1573-abt 1620): his daughter. Wiki: Campbell-7370
Elizabeth Campbell was the illegitimate daughter of Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll and his mistress, Beatrix Campbell. Beatrix was born about 1532 at Calder Castle in Nairnshire, Scotland to Sir Archibald Grant, 2nd of Cawdor and Isabella Grant. According to Clan MacFarlane, Beatrix was the mother of Elizabeth, who was born before her marriage to Patrick Grant 2nd of Glenmoriston. Elizabeth married Laird Iain McFarlane 15th Barron of Arrochar before Jun 1590 and they had 6 children.
VICKI’S FOURTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
John “Mor” Grant 3rd of Glenmoriston (bef. 1564-1637): her brother. Wiki: Grant-5691
John Grant, 3rd of Glenmoriston, was Elizabeth Campbell’s younger brother and was born in Urquhart, Inverness, the son of Patrick Grant 2nd of Glenmoriston and his wife Beatrix Campbell. John Grant 3rd of Glenmoriston married Elizabeth Grant (1580-1690) and had three sons, Patrick (1573-1643) who became Grant 4th Laird of Glenmoriston, John abt. 1584-1648; and Duncan (abt. 1636- aft 1731).
VICKI’S FIFTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Duncan Grant of Duldreggan (abt. 1636- aft 1731): his son. Wiki: Grant-5139
The dates are becoming outlandish – Duncan’s oldest brother, Patrick was born 63 years before Duncan! And the dad, John “Mor” 3rd Grant of Glenmoriston died just after Duncan was born, at the age of 70 plus! Anyway, Wikitree says Duncan married Catherine McDonald at an unknown date and at an unknown location and had three sons: Patrick Grant (abt 1660-abt 1755); Alexander Grant (1662-1719) and Archibald Grant (1665-bef.1715). A note on his Wikitree page says his wife was actually Catherine McDonell [not McDonald] a daughter of Donald McDonell 8th Chief of Glengarry whose wife was daughter of 9th Chief Clan Ranald [a MacDonald]. Different sources say there were five sons, but for this connection paper we are primarily concerned with the next step! Everyone seems to agree that it’s a bit of a mess!
VICKI’S SIXTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Patrick Grant (abt.1660-abt. 1755): his son. Wiki: Grant-5140
Patrick Grant was born and died in Dundreggan, Glenmoriston, Inverness, Scotland (maybe) and fathered one child, a son named John to a woman called Janet. Did he take part in Culloden, which is about 40 miles to the north? It is accepted that about 70-80 clansmen post Culloden surrendered on the advice of senior Lairds only to be shipped to Barbados as slaves.
VICKI’S SEVENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
John Grant (1680-1715): his son. Wiki: Grant-5132
A son, John was born to Patrick Grant and a Janet (Unknown) Grant however a link on Wikitree from “Clan MacFarlane and associated clans genealogy” says that John’s father was Archibald Grant. Luckily, both Wikitree and Clan MacFarlane are in unison about the only child of John and Janet; a chap named Aeneas Grant
VICKI’S EIGHTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Aeneas/Angus Dundreggan Grant (1702-1779): his son. Wiki: Grant-5130
He married a Hannah Grant and had at least four children, living and dying in Dundreggan. Aeneas Grant has some coverage on Wikitree, Ancestry and Roots as well as plenty of other genealogical sites. After Culloden, despite having a certificate of immunity his cattle were stolen and his equipment and furniture destroyed by the nasty boys of the Cumberland Butcher. He was prepared by the English for hanging and forced to watch his wife raped before a kinsman challenged the English Major and he was released. It also appears that one of his claims to fame was that he was the father-in-law of Simon Fraser Jr., the famed Canadian explorer.
VICKI’S NINTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
John Dundreggan Grant (1737-1802): his son. Wiki: Grant-8665
John Grant was born in Glenmoriston, Scotland, married twice in Scotland, migrated to Canada in 1785 and married once more. The first wife was Caroline Urquhart, the second Catherine Grant and the third Mary McIntyre. The number of children varies from source to source, but many records show that Dundreggan Grant migrated to Canada to fight with the British Loyalists and did not return to the Scottish Highlands.
VICKI’S TENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Catherine Grant (1746-abt.1780) his second wife. Wiki: Grant-8716
Catherine Grant was born in Urquhart, Inverness Scotland, the third child to Alexander Grant sixth of Corrimony and his first wife, Jean Ogilvie who were married in 1740 and had 12 children. Their life will be a separate story as Alexander Grant sixth of Corrimony was a survivor of the battle of Culloden. Although badly injured he was carried off the field by one of his tenants and hidden in a cave near the Fall of Morrall.
The next connection is Catherine Grant’s older brother, James Grant seventh of Corrimony.
VICKI’S ELEVENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
James Grant (1743-1835): her brother. Wiki: Grant-8722
injured Jacobites after the Battle of Culloden
James Grant was a very young child at the time of battle of Culloden. “On the approach of the Hanoverian troops after Culloden he and his sister were hidden in panniers, and carried off to Culbockie by William Cameron, farmer at Carnoch, and kept there till matters were settled.”
It appears that James Grant’s father, Alexander Grant the Sixth of Corrimony lost much of his cattle and property as a consequence of supporting the Jacobites in the battle of Culloden and the upheaval in the highlands that followed. James Grant became a solicitor of great renown, dubbed “the father of the Scottish bar”. He was a first-rate musician (both vocal and instrumental), a scholar and an antiquarian. James Grant authored books, wrote poetry and composed music. He was also a cautioner for Sir Peter Grant of Rothiemurchis which caused him financial difficulties from which he never recovered. He surrendered his estate to creditors in 1829, which meant that the Barony of Corrimony, which had been in his family for more than 320 years was lost.
Grant married Elizabeth Robertson, daughter of a Perth merchant, Robert Robertson and his wife Hannah Swan (more on her later) in 1779 and they had four children. The eldest, a daughter Jane, was born in 1780 and is the next connection.
VICKI’S TWELFTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Jane Grant (1780-1839): his daughter. Wiki: Grant-21126
Jane Grant married William Armstrong, a wholesale butcher from Child’s House Morpeth, which is 16 miles north of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Cumberland, Morpeth is on the Wansbeck River and William Armstrong became part of the growing Newcastle market. They had seven children, most of whom married and settled in Northeast England between Durham and Morpeth.
VICKI’S THIRTEENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Elizabeth Armstrong (1804-1875) her daughter. Wiki: Armstrong-19141
and is probably where he met Elizabeth Armstrong.
Elizabeth Armstrong married John Laurence Hendrickson in Newcastle-on-Tyne at the St. John the Baptist Church in 1837. Hendrickson was a tailor and very talented musician; and he was also a “man of colour”, a mulatto from the island of Nevis in the Caribbean. They migrated to South Australia, arriving in March 1839 in Port Adelaide on the ship “D’Auvergne”. Initially setting up in business as a tailor and property developer in Adelaide, John Hendrickson, like so many men in the 1850’s succumbed to “gold fever” leaving his wife and four children destitute in Adelaide while he pursued his fortune on the Victorian goldfields.
VICKI’S FOURTEENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Elizabeth Hendrickson (1841-1897): her daughter. Wiki: Hendrickson-2088
Elizabeth Hendrickson was born in Adelaide in 1841 and grew up in Salisbury, now a suburb of Adelaide. Her mother was very religious and instrumental in securing a minister to lead their community’s church. Enter George Hoatson, an independent minister from Halifax, Yorkshire who arrived in Melbourne on board the “Shalimar” in 1859. George was the fifth son of a successful businessman and was most likely encouraged to become a minister and sent to Australia with a few pounds by his oldest brother.
George became the church minister in Salisbury and left after a short term but came back very quickly to marry the pregnant Elizabeth in a ceremony at her mother’s house. The newly married couple left almost immediately for Victoria, settling initially in Dunolly, central Victoria, before moving to Raywood about 50 miles away, due north of Bendigo.
VICKI’S FIFTEENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Marion Hoatson (1863-1959): her daughter. Wiki: Hoatson-2
Marion Hoatson was born in Dunolly in 1863, the second of seven Hoatson children and when the family moved to Raywood she met a young man, John Miles who came to church with his parents – his mother in particular, Mary (Weston) Miles was a very religious person. John’s father, Charles Miles was a migrant from Somerset, England and had moved from the Geelong area to Raywood trying to secure a selection of land. John was born at sea, a few weeks before arriving in Geelong on the “Marshall Bennett”. John and Marion married in Raywood in September 1880; he was 26, she was 17.
VICKI’S SIXTEENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Charles Henry Miles (1883-1969): her son. Wiki: Miles-9061
Charles Henry Miles, named after his Somerset born grandfather, was born onto the land and with his brothers, uncles and cousins expanded their collective farmland north into Kamarooka, Mitiamo, Mologa and Pyramid Hill. He married Emily Ann Hare in 1910 and they had six sons. All reports suggest that he was a hard, demanding and religious man.
VICKI’S SEVENTEENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Cyril Hoatson Miles (1919-2009): his son. Wiki: Miles-7473
Cyril Miles chafed at the rural farming life, particularly as one of the youngest sons he had to do the more menial tasks. A gifted sportsman, he relished in the opportunity to play football and cricket whenever he was allowed. When Australia declared war in 1939 Cyril was working on a neighbours farm and simply downed tools and walked to the nearest recruitment centre. He served in the 2/5th Battalion throughout the duration of WWII and was awarded the Military Cross for exceptional bravery in New Guinea. He married his sweetheart, Mavis Butterworth on 17th October 1945 in All Saints Church Bendigo, still in his uniform. Cyril and Mavis had five children, the two boys were bookends, and the three girls much sweeter.
VICKI’S FINAL DEGREE of CONNECTION
Vicki Miles (1951-): his daughter. Wiki: Miles-7472
She is no bastard.
ANOTHER ACT OF BASTARDRY
The first connection linking Vicki with the Stuarts was through Jean, sister of Mary Queen of Scots.
There is another pathway.
CHARLES STUART II KING of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND (1630-1685) Wiki: Stuart-4
This connection is through Charles II who reigned England and Scotland for 25 years: 1660-1685. He was known as the Merry Monarch and although very popular, was a weak king with inept foreign policy. He had 13 known mistresses, one of whom was the actress, Nell Gwynn. He fathered numerous illegitimate children but no heir to the throne.
One of these illegitimate children was a son born in Holland where Charles was in exile (Cromwell stuff!), to Dorothea Helena Kerckhoven, the wife of Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby, an English nobleman and politician; and the daughter of a Dutch nobleman, Jehan van Der Kerckhoven, Lord of Heenvliet.
Dorothea and the Earl were married in 1650 and an extramarital tryst between Dorothea and Charles II resulted in a son, George “Swan” (1658-1730) who was raised by the wife of a Gunner at Windsor named Swan. George assumed the surname, Swan and was recognised by King Charles II as his son. When asked why he had not ennobled him, as he had his other illegitimate children, the king replied, “I did not dare to make a deuck (Scots for ‘duck’) of him, but I made a nobler bird”.
George Swan became a burgess in Glasgow in later life and had at least two daughters, Hannah Swan (1725-1807) and Elizabeth Swan (1726-1790). Both are buried at Kinnoull, Perth, Scotland.
Hannah (Swan) Robertson (1725-1807), daughter of George Swan and wife of a Perth merchant, Robert Robertson, published two books in her life “The Young Ladies School of Arts” in 1766 and “The Life of Mrs. Robertson, (A Tale of Truth as Well as of Sorrow)” in 1791. She was also the proprietor of the New Inn in Aberdeen and was a well known character in Edinburgh during the last decade of her life. She was described thus: “Unusually tall in stature, and beautiful even in old age, her figure, with black velvet capuchin and cane, was long familiar in the streets of Edinburgh.”
Hannah’s eldest daughter, Elizabeth Robertson married James Grant who was
VICKI’S ELEVENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
James Grant (1743-1835): Seventh of Corrimony; older brother of Catherine Grant and first born of Alexander Grant Sixth of Corrimony.
And of course, you know the story from this point on.
But what you may not know is that Roger is also descended from Charles II, the Merry Monarch. After years of hoping that urban myths of him being a direct descendant of Julius Caesar were true (really? – he couldn’t speak a word of Italian) and a brief flirtation with kinship to the biblical Adam, it seems that instead of great statesman-like gravitas that the Roman Republic could bestow upon him, he is probably no more than a pommie bastard.
CHARLES STUART II
KING of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND (1630-1685) Wiki: Stuart-4
ROGER’S FIRST DEGREE of CONNECTION
Charles Lennox (1672-1723): his son. Wiki: Lennox-1
Charles was born 29 July 1672 in London, the illegitimate son of Charles II Stuart, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his French mistress, Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kérouaille, later Duchess of Portsmouth.[1] He may have originally been known by the surname Fitzroy, but was granted the surname Lennox, when he was created 1st Duke of Lennox.
ROGER’S SECOND DEGREE of CONNECTION
Charles Lennox (1701-1750): his son. Wiki: Lennox-3
Charles Lennox was born 18 May 1701 at Goodwood, the only son of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, and Anne Brudenell. Having joined the army, he became a captain in the royal regiment of horse guards. In 1722, still styled Earl of March, he was elected M.P. for Chichester and Newport, but sat only for Chichester. In 1723 he succeeded to his father’s titles. He was aide-de-camp to both George I and George II and at the coronation of George II was made Lord High Constable of England for the day. In 1745 he was promoted to lieutenant general. In the same year he went with the Duke of Cumberland on his expedition against the Jacobites.
ROGER’S THIRD DEGREE of CONNECTION
George Lennox (1737-1805): his son. Wiki: Lennox-10
General Lord George Henry Lennox was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 to 1790. In 1772 he was elected Mayor of Chichester. Despite the Hanoverian side taken by his father, George made an arranged marriage for his own son Charles with an heiress of Clan Gordon, a notable Jacobite family.
ROGER’S FOURTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Charles Lennox (1764-1819): his son. Wiki: Lennox-286
Charles was the 4th Duke of Richmond, the Lord Lieutenant of Sussex from 1816 until 1819; and he was the 10th Governor General of British North America (I’m sure there was more than just aristocratic nepotism). He died in Upper Canada on 28thAugust 1819, of rabies after being bitten by a pet fox.
ROGER’S FIFTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Charlotte Gordon (1768-1842): his wife. Wiki: Gordon-4333
Lady Charlotte Gordon was the eldest child of the 4th Duke of Gordon and married Lennox in 1789 at the family castle in Moray, Scotland. She is best known as the hostess of the Duchess of Richmond’s ball in Brussels in 1814 at which the Duke of Wellington received confirmation that Napoleon Bonaparte had entered the Netherlands.
ROGER’S SIXTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
George Gordon (1770-1836): her brother. Wiki: Gordon-2723
From May 1796 George, as Colonel in Chief, commanded the newly formed “Gordon Highlanders” which was founded by him, his sister and her husband, Charles Lennox. He married in Bath in 1813 to Elizabeth Brodie who was 24 years his junior. He was a professional soldier, rose to the rank of general and had three illegitimate children.
ROGER’S SEVENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Georgiana Gordon (1804-1890): his daughter. Wiki: Gordon-15176
Georgiana’s mother was Jane Graham, about whom little is known “whether she was a housemaid or a milliner, a singer or an actress, she did not belong to Lord Huntley’s world”. Georgiana was bilingual from an early age and was seen as a talented artist in her teen years. She lived with her grandfather in Gordon Castle until his death in 1827 when she went to live with her father in Huntly Lodge. She married a lawyer, Andrew McRae who in 1838 migrated to Australia, settling in Melbourne where Georgiana joined him in 1841.
Her life in greater detail:
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mccrae-georgiana-huntly-2392
ROGER’S EIGHTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Octavia McRae (1847-1941): her daughter. Wiki: McRae-256
Octavia married George Watton Moore in 1867 at the Trinity Church, East Melbourne and they had six children.
ROGER’S NINTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Cora Moore (1885-1979): her daughter. Wiki: Moore-61925
Cora was the fifth child and married her husband, Harold Darwin Conway Higgins in 1907 in Perth, Western Australia. She lived into her 90’s and was buried at Hawthorn, Victoria
ROGER’S TENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Harold Higgins (1879-1929): her husband. Wiki: Higgins-9493
Harold Darwin Conway Higgins was a public servant, possibly involved in mining, living in Kalgoorlie and Perth for the duration of his married life.
ROGER’S ELEVENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
James Higgins (1844-1909): his father. Wiki: Higgins-4582
James Jerome Higgins, with the same name as his father was born in Sutton Forest NSW. He was a mining surveyor, initially in New South Wales who was instrumental in setting up a surveying department for Western Australia Mines.
ROGER’S TWELFTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Augusta Higgins (1845-1909): his sister. Wiki: Higgins-4583
Augusta Higgins, daughter and eighth child of an early Berrima pioneering entrepreneur, James Jerome Higgins (1809-1855), married Henry Stone, the son and ninth child of an Irish Protestant minister who had settled in Sutton Forest, the same part of the NSW Southern Highlands. They moved to Orange after marriage and consequently Augusta had to give up her teaching career. She had eleven children.
ROGER’S THIRTEENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Florence Stone (1870-1957): her daughter. Wiki: Stone-16525
Florence Winton Stone was the first daughter of a large family of eleven children. She married Edward Thomas Irving, a photographer and serial philanderer, had six children, moving from place to place along the Murrumbidgee River in Victoria and New South Wales before settling in Sydney with her children.
ROGER’S FOURTEENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Reginald Irving (1893-1963): her son. Wiki: Irving-2278
Reginald Norman Irving was the first born of Florence and “Ted”. Before marriage, he worked as a steward on passenger ships, which is probably where he met his wife, Hilda Ethel Wright who was a post WWII migrant from Suffolk in England.
ROGER’S FIFTEENTH DEGREE of CONNECTION
Robert Irving (1923-1996): his only child. Wiki: Irving-2277
ROGER’S FINAL DEGREE of CONNECTION
Roger Irving (1952): his son. Wiki: Irving-2256
DNA analysis can produce some very interesting results:
Comparing Kit UB7819382 (Vicki Ann Miles) [Living DNA] and Kit YH8638398 (Roger Francis Irving) [Living DNA]
The largest shared segment, 8.1cM’s is on chromosome 15.
Another 18 chromosomes share a total of 136.4 cM’s
But they didn’t have children!
miles of irvings 
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