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STEWART STUART, George

Male 1766 - 1791  (25 years)


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  • Name STEWART STUART, George 
    Gender Male 
    Born 1766  South Ronaldsay, Orkney Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Biography 28 Apr 1789  Portsmouth, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    HMS BOUNTY AKA HM ARMED VESSEL BOUNTY, HMAV BOUNTY Crew Member/Mutineer
    DESCRIPTION - George Stewart, midshipman, aged 24 years, five feet seven inches high, good complexion, dark hair, slender made, narrow chested, and long neck, small face, and black eyes; tatowed on the left breast with a star, and on the left arm with a heart and darts, is also tatowed on the backside. 
    • DESCRIPTION: Per Transcript of BOUNTY Mutiny Court-Martial
    Biography Aft. 22 Sep 1789  Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    George Stewart (GS) (1766-1791) - Midshipman on HMAV BOUNTY
    Mutineer who debarked the BOUNTY at Matavai Bay and married the chief's daughter "Peggy". 
    Died 29 Aug 1791  Great Barrier Reef, Moulter Cay, Queensland Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    Cause: Brained by a gangway, crashed down on him while in the water, drowned 
    Buried 29 Aug 1791  Great Barrier Reef, Moulter Cay, Queensland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • LOCATION OF THE SINKING HMS PANDORA:
      - The wreck of the H.M.S. Pandora lies about 5km northwest of Moulter's Cay, 120km east of Cape York.
      http://www.janeresture.com/pandora/
    Person ID I19730  1. Schwald - WA-NY-OR-TX
    Last Modified 29 Jun 2016 

    Father STEWART, Alexander,   b. Bef. 1746, South Ronaldsay, Orkney Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother RICAN, Margaret,   b. Bef. 1752, South Ronaldsay, Orkney Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F7312  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family INDIA PEQUE, Peggy,   b. Bef. 1774, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft. Dec 29, 1791, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 17 years) 
    Married Abt. 1789  Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Type: tribal ceremony 
    Children 
    +1. STEWART STUART, Maria Antonia de la Ascension "Little Peggy, Charlotte",   b. Abt. 1790, Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2016 
    Family ID F6448  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1766 - South Ronaldsay, Orkney Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - Type: tribal ceremony - Abt. 1789 - Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBiography - George Stewart (GS) (1766-1791) - Midshipman on HMAV BOUNTY Mutineer who debarked the BOUNTY at Matavai Bay and married the chief's daughter "Peggy". - Aft. 22 Sep 1789 - Matavai Bay, Tahiti, French Polynesia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - Cause: Brained by a gangway, crashed down on him while in the water, drowned - 29 Aug 1791 - Great Barrier Reef, Moulter Cay, Queensland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - 29 Aug 1791 - Great Barrier Reef, Moulter Cay, Queensland Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S257] Archives - www world wide web, (world wide web), http://www.fatefulvoyage.com/minutes/minutesNAnswer.html#n000210, 12 Aug 1792.
      GEORGE STEWART'S DESCRIPTION - AN ANSWER TO CERTAIN ASSERTIONS CONTAINED IN THE APPENDIX TO A PAMPHLET, ENTITLED Minutes of the Proceedings on the Court-Martial held at Portsmouth, August 12th, 1792, on Ten Persons charged with Mutiny on Board his Majesty's Ship the Bounty BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM BLIGH
      NO. V.
      Description of the Pirates remaining on Board his Majesty's armed Vessel, Bounty, on the 28th April, 1789. Drawn up at Timor
      Copies of this List were forwarded from Batavia to Lord Cornwallis, then Governor-General of India, at Calcutta; to Governor Philips, at New South Wales; and one was
      left at Batavia, with the Governor-General of the Dutch Possessions in India.
      ...
      George Stewart, midshipman, aged 24 years, five feet seven inches high, good complexion, dark hair, slender made, narrow chested, and long neck, small face, and black eyes; tatowed on the left breast with a star, and on the left arm with a heart and darts, is also tatowed on the backside.
      ...

    2. [S257] Archives - www world wide web, (world wide web), http://www.fatefulvoyage.com/search/person.php?name=Stewart,+George.
      BIOGRAPHY - Stewart, George
      George Stewart was born in 1766 in South Ronaldsay, Orkney, and was 21 when he signed on the Bounty as a midshipman. His family were known to Bligh, and, indeed, he may have written them offering young George a berth on the Bounty. ,,,

    3. [S257] Archives - www world wide web, (world wide web), http://pandorawreckancestors.net/family-histories/george-stewart/.
      BIOGRAPHY - George Stewart (GS) (1766-1791) - Midshipman on HMAV Bounty
      During the Bounty's sojourn at Tahiti in 1788 (and after September 1789) GS cohabited with a local woman, whom he called "Peggy". She was the daughter of Tippaoo, a Tahitian "grandee" who had befriended GS according to traditional custom whereby names were exchanged, each man taking on reciprocal obligations toward the other, according to the rules of 'taio'-ship.

    4. [S254] Archives - www Wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty.
      SINKING OF THE HMS PANDORA - The frigate dispatched under Captain Edward Edwards to capture the [BOUNTY'S] mutineers and return them to England to stand trial.
      ...
      PANDORA arrived at Tahiti on 23 March 1791 and, within a few days, all 14 surviving BOUNTY men had either surrendered or been captured. Edwards made no distinction between mutineers and those detained on BOUNTY unwillingly; all were incarcerated in a specially constructed prison erected on PANDORA'S quarterdeck, dubbed "Pandora's Box".

      PANDORA remained at Tahiti for five weeks while Captain Edwards vainly sought information on BOUNTY'S whereabouts. The ship finally sailed on 8 May [1791], to search for Christian and BOUNTY among the thousands of southern Pacific islands. Apart from a few spars discovered at Palmerston Island, no traces of the fugitive vessel were found. Edwards continued the search until August [1791], when he turned west and headed for the Dutch East Indies [now Indonesia].

      On 29 August 1791, PANDORA ran aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef*. The men in "Pandora's Box" were ignored as the regular crew attempted to prevent the ship from foundering. When [Captain] Edwards gave the order to abandon ship, PANDORA'S armourer began to remove the prisoners' shackles, but the ship sank before he had finished. ... four BOUNTY men- Stewart, Henry Hillbrant, Richard Skinner and John Sumner?drowned, along with 31 of PANDORA's crew.
      ...
      *LOCATION OF SINKING:
      James Morrison Journal
      The Pandora
      Description of the sinking states "August, 1791. Several Islands were discovered on this passage, and on the 22nd made the reef which Crosses the Streights in the Latitude of 9°, having narrowly escaped running on a Patch about a Mile long, which lay by it self but a few days before-this was Called Well's Reef from its being discovered in the Night by a young man of that name.
      Finding no opening in the Reef, we hauld to the Southward working to windward some days, and on Sunday the 28th of August the 2nd Lieut. was sent to find an Opening in the reef with the Yaul and the Ship hove too- and on Monday the 29th at 7 P M the Ship went on the Reef."
      http://www.fatefulvoyage.com/morrison/morrisonIPandora.html#n000066

      ADDITIONAL INFO:
      The wreck of the H.M.S. Pandora lies about 5km northwest of Moulter's Cay, 120km east of Cape York.
      http://www.janeresture.com/pandora/

    5. [S257] Archives - www world wide web, (world wide web), http://pandorawreckancestors.net/family-histories/george-stewart/.
      DEATH - DURING THE SINKING OF THE HMS PANDORA
      George Stewart (GS) (1766-1791) - Midshipman on HMAV Bounty

      GS was apparently content to live a quiet life with his Tahitian family; but he and fellow midshipman Peter Heywood gave themself up immediately upon the PANDORA'S arrival in Tahiti in March 1791.
      They were locked up with 12 others in 'Pandora's Box' - a small wooden cell built for the prisoners on the quarter-deck to keep them segregated from the rest of the ship's company.
      4 months later [29 August 1791], GS perished in the wreck of the PANDORA; with 3 of his former BOUNTY shipmates -Richard Skinner, John Sumner and Henry Hillbrant.
      Not having managed to escape from the cell, Hillbrandt drowned in the 'box' but GS managed to jump clear. However, he was brained by a gangway when it crashed down on him while he was in the water.

    6. [S257] Archives - www world wide web, (world wide web), http://www.fatefulvoyage.com/pandora/pandoraIHamilton01.html#n000072.
      MARRIAGE - A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
      By George Hamilton, Surgeon Of The Pandora
      ...
      This was more to be dreaded, as many of the prisoners were married to the most respectable chiefs' daughters in the district opposite to where we lay at anchor; in particular one, who took the name of Stewart, a man of great possession in landed property, near Matavy Bay: a gentleman of that name belonging to the Bounty having married his daughter, and he, as his friend and father-in law, agreeable to their custom, took his name.


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