STIVENSONE, CATHERINE [SSNE 8274]

Surname

STIVENSONE, STEVENSON

First name

CATHERINE

Nationality

DUTCH

Text source

Catherine Stivensone was a Dutch woman whose husband, unnamed, was a soldier in the Scots-Dutch Brigade during the Scottish Highland War (1689-1692). After her husband’s death at the battle of Killiecrankie, 27th July 1689, she was part of a group of five Dutch widows (Cathrine Laflour [SSNE 8272], Issobell Greenlands [SSNE 8273], Mary Walker [SSNE 8275] and Magdallen Addeross [SSNE 8276]) who petitioned the Scottish Privy Council for charitable funds. On 24th August 1689, it was ordered that the widows were to be paid £6 Sterling in total from the Treasury to be divided equally amongst them which was to facilitate their return to the Dutch Republic.

 

Sources: 

Henry Paton (ed.), Records of the Privy Council of Scotland, Volume 14, 3rd Series (Edinburgh, 1933), Warrant for a precept to some Dutchwomen, 24th August 1689, p. 98.

National Records of Scotland, E7/5, Treasury Register, 1688-1689, 24th August 1689, f. 178.

 

This entry written by Mr Graeme Millen.

 

Keywords: Widow, female

Service record

SCOTLAND, THE DUTCH REPUBLIC,

Arrived 1689-07-27, as WIDOW

Departed 1689-08-24, as REPATRIATED

Capacity PETITIONER, purpose WIDOW