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Christina Stewart

Dates 1777 - 1829
Additional date information 1777-1829
Short biography

clearance landlord

Biography

bought estate of 'Glenmorvern' in Argyll in 1824,  evicted many of  the tenants to let the lands for sheep farms, notorious for clearing whole farms, tale of one of the evicted tenants Mary of Unnimore told in  N. MacLeod Morvern, A Highland Parish (2002)

see Memorials to Scottish Women

womenofscotland.org.uk/women/christina-stewart

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