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of the Arms of Sir Hugh Houghton Stewart of Athenree, Baronet

Sir Hugh Houghton Stewart of Athenree, Fourth Baronet in the

Commission of the Peace & Deputy Lieutenant for County Tyrone,

Brigadier-General (retired) & late Lieutenant Colonel and Honorary

Colonel commanding 3rd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, having

by Petition of date the twenty fifth day of January current, unto the

Lord Lyon King of Arms, Represented that he was on the fifteenth

day of September 1858, & is the eldest son of the late Sir John Marcus

Stewart, 3rd Baronet, and his wife [married first December 1856] Annie Coote

eldest daughter & co-heiress of George Powell Houghton of Kilmannock, County

Wexford; that the said Sir John Marcus Stewart . born nineteenth November

1830, was the eldest son of Sir Hugh Stewart, 2nd Baronet, sometime Member of

Parliament for County Tyrone, & his wife [married nineteenth January 1826] Julia

daughter of Marcus M’Causland Gage of Bellarena, County Londonderry; that the

said Sir Hugh Stewart, Baronet , born fourteenth May 1792, was the eldest son of Sir John

Stewart, sometime Attorney General for Ireland, created 1st Baronet of Athenree on twenty

first day of June 1803, & his wife Mary daughter of Mervyn Archdale, Esquire, of Castle

Archdale; that the said Right Honourable Sir John Stewart, Baronet, born 1757, was the

eldest son of the Reverend Hugh Stewart, Rector of Termon in County Tyrone, & his wife

[married 1755] Sarah daughter of the Reverend Andrew Hamilton, Archdeacon of Raphoe

that the said Reverend Hugh Stewart, born 1711, was the only surviving son of John

Stewart of Gortigil, & his wife [married 1710] Mary daughter of Thomas Kennedy of

Breigh in County Tyrone; that the said John Stewart of Gortigil, born 1681, was the

eldest surviving son of Hugh Stewart of Gortigil, & his wife [married 1675] Margaret

daughter of Thomas Morris, Esquire, of Mountjoy Castle; that the said Hugh

Stewart of Gortigil was the second son but eldest with male issue of Captain

Andrew Stewart of Gortigil, who in or about the year 1620, accompanied Andrew

Stewart, 3rd Lord Ochiltree & 1st Lord Castlestewart, from Scotland and whose

Kinsman he has always been accounted by family tradition; that the family of

Stewart of Gortigil & Athenree has borne Arms from a period anterior to the year

1672, which arms were confirmed & amplified when registered in the office of Arms in

Ireland on Twenty Eigth day of November 1808. And the said Petitioner having

Prayed that the said Arms, with such difference as may seem proper, might be

recorded in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, the Lord

Lyon King of Arms by Interlocutor of this date Granted Warrant to the Lyon

Clerk to matriculate in the Public Register of All Arms & Bearings in Scotland

in name of the Petitioner Sir Hugh Houghton Stewart of Athenree, Baronet, the

following Ensigns Armorial, viz;- Quarterly, First, Or, a lion rampant Within a

double tressure flory counter flory Gules, for Scotland; Second, Or, a fess chequy

Azure & Argent in chief a portcullis Sable, for Stewart; Third, Argent, a saltire

between four roses Gules barbed Vert, for Lennox; Fourth, Or, a lion rampant Gules

for Fife, the whole within a bordure compony, Argent & Azure charged with three

thistles proper. Above the shield is placed a helmet befitting his Degree with a

Mantling Gules doubled Or, & on a Wreath of his Liveries is set for Crest a unicorn’s

head couped Argent armed  & crined or between two olive branches proper; & in

an Escrol over the same this Motto Forward. Matriculated the thirtieth day of

January One thousand nine hundred & thirty five. Extracted furth of the

Public Register of All Arms & Bearings in Scotland.

Reproduced with kind permission of Sir David Stewart, 7th Bart. of Athenree, Co. Tyrone.