Relatives

Gordon Matthews Stewart, great-grandson of Alexander Stewart, loaned us his father's papers that had been background for writing The Stewarts of Dwight.

Douglas Dadson, another great-grandson, told us about the picture of Alexander Stewart in a window in Durham and sent a photograph and other information.

Ethel Keats Stewart, widow of Hugh Wilson Stewart, grandson of Alexander Stewart, sent articles about Alexander's ministry and an anecdote.

Helen Checker Poole, wife of a descendant of Alexander's half-brother William, transcribed, copied, and sent a wealth of essential material and helped me to figure out identities.

Kathryn Rennie and Shirley Wilson Caldwell, wives of descendants of Annie Stuart and James Rennie, provided information about the Rennie branch.

Willa Stewart Grafftey Dinsdale, a descendant of Alexander's daughter Emma, sent data on her branch.

My daughter, Judith Stewart Gohringer, drew the Maple Leaf and Thistle motif.

In Scotland

Diane Baptie, a researcher in Edinburgh, obtained information for me from the 1798 Horse Tax list, kirk session records. Old Parish Registers, and two parish censuses, with the help of Mr. McGregor of Elgin.

The Scots Ancestry Research Society in Edinburgh tried in vain to find records of Alexander Stewart.

The Stewart Society sent background information about the Stewarts in northeast Scotland.

When I visited Mortlach parish in 1989, Jean D. Smart of Dufftown provided a comfortable room and good meals in her home; Kenneth and Margaret Sessions of Dufftown took me on a wonderful drive through the area; and Ian and Helen Watt of Nether Cluny let me visit their farm. Moray District Council provided photographs of Mortlach parish.

In Canada

I thank the Canadians who helped me, a non-Canadian, to understand better a fragment of their history.

The Canadian Baptist Archives at McMaster University, through Mrs. Terry Major, sent much valuable material obtainable nowhere else.

The Eva Brook Donly Museum in Simcoe allowed me to spend a day using the rich and excellently organized resources about Norfolk County.

Rev. Robert Schaunnessay and John MacArthur opened the Durham Baptist Church to us and let us look for old records and take photographs.

Public libraries in Durham, Ohsweken, Owen Sound, Simcoe, and Stratford welcomed our enquiries and helped us find materials.

The Archives of Ontario sent copies of the record of the marriage of Alexander Stewart and Esther Willson and of the wills of Alexander Stewart and Ruth Stewart.

On the Six Nations Reserve, the Tourism Office in Ohsweken provided me with historical material. Mrs. John T. Green transcribed and sent her mother-in-law Carrie Green's memories of Baptist work on the Reserve.

Three members of the Ontario Genealogical Society made searches for material for us: Lester J. Wilker of the Perth County Branch did research at the Stratford Perth Archives on Ruth Thomas (Reynolds) Stewart; Donald S. Holmes sent data on the Stewart family from the 1861, 1881, and 1891 censuses and sought in vain in the 1871 census; Dan Walker of the Norfolk County Branch sent the Wilson family listing from the 1851 census.

In the United States

The American Baptist Historical Library in Rochester, NY, and its director, James Lynch, provided me with copies of Alexander Stewart's home missionary reports.

The Library of St. John Fisher College in Pittsford, NY, let us copy material from its Alexander McGinn Stewart collection.

The Family History Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Perinton, NY, and its volunteer staff members were unfailingly helpful.

Above all, I am grateful to my husband, David Smithson Stewart, for his constant support and interest and his patience during research, writing, and typing that sometimes seemed endless.