Re: Ochiltree/Ogletree/Stewart
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In reply to:
Re: Ochiltree/Ogletree/Stewart
4/10/00
Judy I do find Electric Scotland a fascinating site with a lot of information.However some of it is just hard to swallow.The one article says the three brotherschanged their name to Ochiltree from Stewart on the way to the colonies.However, Michael and Mathew can be found in Armaugh many years before that under the name of Ochiltree.
While the Royal theory is interesting have you stopped to consider that the name Ochiltree was in use many years prior to the Stewart fellow adopting it as a tit (TITLE NOT A NAME) IN 1542.
It might be just as honorable to be descended from Michael Ochiltree who was Dean of Dunblane in 1424 or John Ochiltree who was a lawyer in Lilithgow in the late 1300s.(Well maybe we do no want to be descended from a lawyer but there are others.)
The Ochiltrees who came to this country as convenanters were honorable people as were the members of Scottish regiments who were left stranded here after the revolution.