Tour Scotland Photograph Video Charles Stirling Memorial Lecropt Kirk By Bridge of Allan Stirlingshire

Tour Scotland video of the Charles Stirling memorial on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. He was the fourth son of William Stirling of Keir born at Cawder on the 12th of May, 1771. He married Christian Erskine at Linlathen on the 14th of October 1817. He died at Cawder on the 30th of January, 1830, and is buried under this church.

The surname Stirling can be found in many different forms and spellings. From to time the surname was spelled Stirling, Sterling, Sturling, Strivelynd, and some of these versions are still used today. These changes in spelling frequently occurred, even between father and son. One clans woman was recorded as being born with one spelling of her name, married with another and died with yet another. More specifically the surname developed in the original territories of Stirling where the Stirlings of Cadder can claim an unbroken line of Chiefs from the year 1160 to the Present. Soon after 1160 a branch of the family settled at Dunmaglas in Nairnshire. The Stirlings of Keir although the most wealthy of the sundry Stirling lines were never the chiefly line. That honour was reserved to the Stirlings of Cadder. Even after the Keirs acquired the Cadder estates in 1534, the Chief of the Name stayed with the Cadder branch and came down to the Drumpelliers in 1818 where it resides to this day with Francis John Stirling Chief of the Name and Arms of Stirling.

Three Chiefs or chieftains swore allegiance to King Edward I of England on his brief conquest of Scotland in 1296. They were John Stirling of Moray, Andrew Strivelyn of Inverkeithing, Fife, and Henry Strivelyn of Stirlingshire. Sir John Stirling, Laird of Keir, represented Stirlingshire in the Scottish Parliament in 1524, Henry Stirling represented Ardoch in Dumbartonshire in 1621, Sir John Stirling of Garden represented Linlithgowshire in 1640, and Sir John Stirling of Keir represented Stirlingshire from 1669 to 1678. Amongst the roll of Scottish Baronets were Sir George Stirling of Glorat and Sir Henry Stirling of Ardoch, both in 1666. Their present family seats are at Faskine, Mansfield, Ardoch, Cadder and Muiravonside, Glorat, Garden, Gargunnock, Fairburn, Larbert, Auchyle and Kippendavie. Notable amongst the Clan at this time was Sir Henry Stirling of Keir.

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