Tour Scotland photograph of the John Stirling Memorial in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. John Stirling, 7th of Kippendavie, Perthshire, Laird of Kippenross House, was descended from a noble Scottish family. Eldest son of Patrick Stirling, Esq., and Catherine Georgina Wedderburn. He married Catherine Mary Wellings, daughter of Reverend. John Wellings and Mary Wedderburn, on 8 August 1839, in Brighton, Sessex, England. They had three sons and one daughter. He died at Kippenross House, near Dunblane, on 27 July 1882.
This distinguished surname is of early medieval Scottish origin, and is a locational name from the historic city of Stirling, in the vicinity of which several famous battles; including Bannockburn in 1314, were fought. Early examples of the surname include: Peter de Striuelin who witnessed a gift of the church of Karreden to the Abbey of Holyrood, in Edinburgh in 1158; Thomas de Striuelyn, archdeacon of Glasgow in 1228, and Sir John Stirling, who swore fealty in 1291.
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