Tour Scotland Video William Stuart Window St Cuthbert's Church Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the William Stuart memorial stained glass window in St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, Scotland. This window is erected by Jane Fisher Stuart and John Stuart children of William Stuart and Rebecca Murray and sole surviving grandchildren of John Stuart and Jane Charteris Fisher.

A DNA study has found that half of all the men who carry the surnames Stewart, or Stuart, are descended from Scotland’s royal dynasty. The same investigation has also traced, for the first time, the rise of a male DNA lineage to a single individual in the 13th century who founded a branch of the Royal Stewart line. There are about 70,000 people with the surname in Britain, and the findings mean that around 17,500 men, regardless of their family trees, can now claim to be of royal descent. Sir John Stewart of Bonkyll died in 1298 fighting alongside William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk, but his well documented pedigree allowed ScotlandsDNA to carry out tests on his descendants, and those of his brother James, the 5th High Steward of Scotland and the grandfather of Robert II, the first Stewart king.

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