Stewart (name)

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Stewart
Origin
Meaning"steward"
Region of originScotland
Other names
Variant form(s)Stuart, Steward, Steuart. Stewert, Siewert
Stewart
GenderMasculine
Other names
Related namesStuart

Stewart is a Scottish surname, also used as a given name. It is possibly derived from the old English word "stigweard", a compound of "stig" meaning household, and "weard", a guardian (ward), or from the Gaelic Stiùbhart meaning steward. Alternative spellings are Stuart, Steward and Steuart. The surname Stewart has large concentrations in the United States (mainly in the Deep South, and the other southern states), United Kingdom (mainly in Scotland, Northern Ireland, North East England, South West England, Cumbria, Lancashire, and Yorkshire), Canada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere that has large Scottish or Ulster Scots diaspora.

The progenitor of the Stewart family was

High Steward of Scotland,[1] hence the origin of the surname. In 2014, Stewart was the 66th-most common surname in the United Kingdom.[2][3]

House of Stewart

One of the hereditary Stewart stewards,

succession to Queen Elizabeth I. The Stewart dynasty ruled Scotland, England and Wales (with an interruption during Cromwell's Commonwealth after the English Civil War) until 1714, when Queen Anne
died and the British Crown passed to the German Electors of Hanover.

The grandson of

Bonnie Prince Charlie". This attempted coup d'état ended in the slaughter of Charles' army at the Battle of Culloden
in April, 1746.

Stewart peers

In addition to the Royal House of Stuart, various branches of the Stewart family became Scottish peers, at various times holding the

.

Diaspora

Many Stewart emigrants from the lowlands of Scotland settled in the Irish province of Ulster in the seventeenth century.[citation needed] Stewarts also emigrated from other parts of Scotland and settled throughout the rest of Ireland.[citation needed]

People named Stewart

Surname

Given name

  • Stewart Copeland, American drummer, best known as the drummer in The Police
  • Stewart Granger, English-American actor, born James Stewart
  • Stewart Lee, English stand-up comedian, writer, director and musician
  • Stewart Mills, Australian Rugby League player
  • Stewart Stevenson, SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament for Banffshire & Buchan Coast, and Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change

Fictional characters

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Stewart". Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 15 October 2014
  3. ^ "Stewart Surname Meaning and Geographic Distribution". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2014