John Stuart Black -- ancestry. Courtesy Debbie R.

Thank you very much for sending the photograph of the grave marker of
John Stuart Black. 


From the family research that I have done I found
that John was a first cousin of my great Grandfather. John's father
Alexander Stuart Black was a brother of my Great, great grandmother
Mary Stuart Black. There were 12 children in total. They were born in
the family croft of Clachaig, Nethy Bridge, Scotland. Right in the
shadows of the Cairngorm Mountains in the Highlands of Scotland. I have
found Stuart Black's farming at Clachaig since 1700 and it is still
farmed by Donald Stuart Black today.

Alexander became a Bank Clerk and moved further north to Bonar Bridge,
in the county of Sutherland. He married Ellen Russell in 1862 in
Inverness. Ellen was born in Australia and was living in Gosport,
Hampshire, England before her marriage to Alexander.

They had 4 sons, all born in Bonar Bridge, Sutherland - John Stuart
Black b. 9th Sept 1863; Charles Alfred Stuart Black b. 4th January
1866; Francis Russell Stuart Black b. 29th April 1868 and Herbert
Stuart Black b. 4th November 1872.

Alexander Stuart Black died in 1889 and the remaining family seem to
have left Scotland as I have been unable to find any further records of
them in Scotland or the rest of the UK. Not sure if they all went to
Canada, but John Stuart Black emmigrated to Canada in 1889 (documented
on 1911 census). He married Catherine Augusta Cormack in Brussels,
Huron, Ontario on 9th November 1896.