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  Charlotte, Duchess of Albany
Charlotte Stuart was the natural daughter of Charles, Prince of Wales (later King Charles III) and of his mistress, Clementina Walkinshaw.
Charlotte was born to Charles and Clementina at Liège in October 1753.
Charlotte's will shows the tenderness she felt for the members of her household, not one of whom is forgotten.
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 Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Stuart, Charlotte, Duchess of Albany (1753-1789)
Owing to the Prince's having no family by his wife Louise, Princess of Stolberg and mistress of the poet Alfieri, his daughter by Clementina was legitimated under the title of Duchess of Albany, by a deed registered by the Parliament of Paris in 1784.
The Duchess is the subject of Burns's poem 'The Bonnie Lass of Albanie'.
After she had been legitimised, the Duchess of Albany went to live with her father, whom she heired, but did not long survive.
www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/StuartCharlotteDuchessofAlbany1753-1789.832.shtml   (444 words)

  
 Charles Edward - LoveToKnow 1911
Later, the countess of Albany threw herself on the protection of her brother-in-law Henry, Cardinal York, at Rome, and the formal separation between the ill-matched pair was finally brought about in 1784, chiefly through the kind offices of King Gustavus III.
Charlotte Stuart, who was declared legitimate and created duchess of Albany, tended her father for the remaining years of his life, during which she contrived to reconcile the two Stuart brothers, so that in 1785 Charles returned to Rome, where he died in the old Palazzo Muti on the 30th of January 1788.
His daughter Charlotte survived her father less than two years, dying unmarried at Bologna in November 1789, at the early age of thirty-six.
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 Albany Hotels
The Dukedom of Albany was first granted in 1398 by King Robert III of Scotland on his brother, Robert Stewart, the title being in the Peerage of Scotland.
"Albany" was a territorial term representing the eastern part of the Scottish highlands, roughly the former Kingdom of the Picts.
The title of "Albany" alone was granted for the fifth time, this time in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1881 to Prince Leopold, the seventh son of Queen Victoria.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
CHARLOTTE TODAY 4.1 THE PEOPLE The Town of Charlotte is proud of its diverse population, which is a product of many years of change in the character of the community and the economy of the region.
The West Charlotte Village currently is focussed on the intersection of Greenbush Road and F-5; it extends from this intersection to the north and south on Greenbush Road and to the east and west on F-5.
Charlotte's shoreline on Lake Champlain is very beautiful, a source of pleasure to its residents, seasonal homeowners, and visitors and a priceless asset to the town.
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 Lennox - LoveToKnow 1911
The earldom was not forfeited, and the widowed duchess of Albany, now also countess of Lennox, lived secure in her island castle of Inchmurrin on Loch Lomond until her death.
Of her four sons, none of whom left legitimate issue, the eldest died in 1421, the two next suffered their father's fate at Stirling, while the youngest had to flee for his life to Ireland.
The wife of the last, Lady Charlotte Gordon, as heir of her brother brought the ancient estates of her family to the Lennoxes; the additional name of Gordon being taken by the 5th duke of Richmond and of Lennox on the death of his uncle, the 5th duke of Gordon.
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 Will of Charlotte, Duchess of Albany, 1789
The will of the Duchess of Albany is remarkable for the tenderness she shows towards the members of her household, not one of whom is forgotten.
In the second place she desires to be buried in the parish church of St. Blaise of Bologna, to the poor of which she leaves a hundred scudi to be distributed to them by the curate of the said church.
The rest of her household, including the Moor in livery, are warmly recommended by the duchess, the testatrix, to the great and constant charity of her royal uncle, and moreover she leaves to the said remnant of her household, including the Moor two years' wages.
www.jacobite.ca /documents/17891114.htm   (690 words)

  
 John Sobieski Stolberg Stuart & Charles Edward Stuart
By Clementina Walkinshaw, the Prince had a daughter Charlotte who was living with her mother in a convent in Paris in March 1783 when, believing himself to be dying, he declared Charlotte his heir, at the same time formally legitimizing her and styling her Duchess of Albany.
Charlotte had managed from the shelter of her convent to give birth to no less than three children, two girls and a boy, by Prince Ferdinand Maximilian de Rohan, Archbishop of Bordeaux and later of Cambrai, the youngest of whom was Charles Edward (1784-1851).
Charlotte died from cancer the following year and her mother died in Switzerland in November 1802, just fifty-six years after that wintery week in 1746, when she later came to believe, she and the Prince first plighted their troth at Bannockburn and she, in her own words, ‘was undone’.
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 Charlotte Stuart, "Duchess of Albany" - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charlotte, Duchess of Albany (Liège, October 1753 – Bologna, November 17, 1789) was the illegitimate daughter and only known child of the Jacobite claimant to the British and Irish thrones Prince Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") and his mistress Clementina Walkinshaw, of a Jacobite family of Lanarkshire.
Charlotte was born at Liège, where Charles was living with his mistress, who had gone to join him in the Low Countries in 1752.
He gave his daughter the title of Duchess of Albany in the peerage of Scotland, as well as the style "Her Royal Highness", and made a new will in 1783, making her his personal heir.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlotte,_Duchess_of_Albany   (358 words)

  
 Perthshire Diary - October 28th 1854
He was, claimed one supporter, “unforgiving and revengeful for the very smallest offence.” Though he was fond of Charlotte, he was increasingly hostile towards Clementina who finally left him, taking Charlotte with her.
When Charlotte received an invitation to visit Prince Charles it was believed that he had but a few months to live, but against all expectations he survived another four years until his death in January 1788.
She was then acknowledged and considered in public as the Prince’s legitimate wife.” Later in the Memorial “The Duchess of Albany had married without her father’s knowledge, Mr Roehenstart to whom she was tenderly attached.” Both statements were sheer fantasy as was his implication that Henry (Prince Charles’ brother) had poisoned his mother Charlotte.
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 Scotland360.com - The Scottish Search Engine
Although he married, in 1772, Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, known as the Countess of Albany, the marriage was unsuccessful and childless.
Charlotte, who died in 1789, never married but she did have two daughters and a son by her lover, Prince Ferdinand de Rohan.
Raised in strictest secrecy, their identities concealed by a variety of alias and ruses, all three children were thought to have left no issue, but it has been discovered that one of them did.
www.scotland360.com /bonnie-prince-charlie.html   (811 words)

  
 Overview of Charlotte Stuart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Charlotte was born in Liege (Belgium) to Charles Edward Stuart (1720-88) and his mistress Clementina Walkinshaw (1720 -1802).
It took until 1783 until Stuart legitimised his daughter, named her as his rightful heir and granted her the titles "The Duchess of Albany" and "Her Royal Highness".
Charlotte never set foot in Scotland and died, unmarried and childless, in Bologna (Italy).
www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/people/famousfirst1826.html   (146 words)

  
 Wikinfo | George III of the United Kingdom
Charlotte, Princess Royal - (29 September 1766 - 6 October 1828); married 1797, Frederick, Duke (later Elector and then King) of Württemberg (1754-1816); no issue.
George is alleged to have married a Quakeress named Hannah Lightfoot in April 17, 1759, prior to his marriage to Charlotte in 1761.
If such a marriage did exist, then his marriage to Charlotte was bigamous and all of George's successors have been usurpers.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=George_III   (1165 words)

  
 Surnames of Early Residents
He was attorney for Duchess County two terms by appointment of the Supreme Judges, was elected to the legislature in 1836, and Supervisor several terms.
Juckett farm in Stanford, of James Winans and Sarah his wife, all the parties then living in "Charlotte Precinct." The next year, 1767, he bought eighty-seven acres of James Smigh and Dorus his wife, all of "Charlotte Precinct." This tract is supposed to be the north part of the original farm of Mrs.
Their son Isaac and Elizabeth Knapp were the parents of the Stanford and northern Duchess families of the name, well known in the first half of the century.
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 Claimants to the Stuart Throne
The relationship between Charles and his daughter was not a harmonius one mainly because for most of his life he refused to recognize her.
He created her DUCHESS OF ALBANY, granted her the Order of the Thistle and legitimized her birth.
Charlotte certainly did have a romance with Prince Ferdinand and bore him three children.
www.electricscotland.com /history/other/claimants_stewarts.htm   (950 words)

  
 Susanna Rowson
In that year she published a novel, "Victoria" (London), which was dedicated to the Duchess of Devonshire, who introduced her to the Prince of Wales, from whom she procured a pension for her father.
Colonel John Montresor, while serving in the British army, persuaded Charlotte Stanley, a descendant of the Earl of Derby, to embark with him in 1774 to New York, where he abandoned her.
See a memoir by Elias Mason (Albany, 1870).-Her sister-in-law, Charlotte Rowson, born near London about 1779; died in 1855, came to this country in 1793 and appeared on the stage in light characters and sang popular songs with much effect.
www.famousamericans.net /susannarowson   (618 words)

  
 Royal Houses of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Charlotte, awarded by her father the title of Duchess of Albany, Act of Legitimation registered by the Parliament of Paris August 1784, bapt 29 October 1753, died unmarried 17 November 1789, but (by Prince Ferdinand Maximilien de Rohan-Guemene, Archbishop of Cambrai, and Count of the Empire (1738-1813)), had three illegitimate children,
Duchess of Inverness (1840) (died 1 August 1873), widow of Sir George Buggin, Knight, and eldest daughter of Arthur Saunders, second Earl of Arran, K.P., by his third wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Underwood, and died without issuel.
Charlotte Augusta, born 7 January 1796, married 2 May, 1816, Prince Leopold George Frederick of Saxe-Saalfeld-Coburg, third son of Francis Antony Frederick, Reigning Duke of Saxe-Saalfeld-Coburg, and died vita patris after giving birth to a stillborn son, 6 November 1817.
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 The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge: Chapter XIX. The Lion's Wrath
He stood alone--his father and the others were reserved for another trial; and as, richly arrayed, he stood opposite to the jury, gazing fixedly first at one, then at the other, as though challenging their right to sit in judgment on him, one eye after another fell beneath his gaze.
He was mute; and the forms of the trial were gone through as of one whose doom was already sealed, but who must receive his sentence according to the strictest form of law, lest the just reward of his deeds should partake of their own violence.
So Stirling saw the unprecedented sight of three generations suffering for their crimes upon the same scaffold--the white-haired Lennox, the Duke of Albany in the prime of life, Walter in the flush and strength of early manhood, Alexander in the bloom of youth.
www.online-literature.com /charlotte-yonge/caged-lion/20   (3060 words)

  
 Dorothy May Campbell Life
Charlotte's spinster sister Harriet struck out for herself by establishing a Ladies' School in Montreal on St.Paul's St which was still flourishing at the time of her father's death in l809.
After Archibald's death in 1818, his widow Charlotte continued to live in "Saxvilla" with her two young daughters for some years but the place was probably sold on her death in 1830 Archibald and Charlotte Campbell had 3 sons and two daughters:- 1.
She was clever with her hands and constructed a miniature farm scene with rivers, bridges, village and livestock which stood in a hallway in a long glass case and fascinated the children.
www.antonymaitland.com /campbell.htm   (16015 words)

  
 Documents Illustrating Jacobite History
Protest of the Duchess of Savoy against the "Act of Settlement", 1701
French Legitimation of Charlotte, Duchess of Albany, August 1784
Protest against the Legitimation of Charlotte, Duchess of Albany, 1784
www.jacobite.ca /documents   (1493 words)

  
 magoo.com: McGoughs and McGaughs in American History by Hugh McGough
James McGough was an enlisted man in the Revolutionary War in the Militia of Duchess County, New York, Associated Exempts.
William McGaugh is listed in the 1860 census of Missouri, Livingston county, Monroe township, age 59, a flsmith, born in Tennessee, with his wife Charlotte, age 35, born in Kentucky; daughter, Amanda, age 19, born in Missouri, and 5 younger children born in Missouri.
Charlotte McGaugh was born on March 10, 1807, in Davidson county, Tennessee.
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 Ancestors from New England and Europe - pafg67 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
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Charlotte Busha nr-1275 was born in 1851 in,Canada.
Bernhard Count of Werl s+-6552 was born in 969 in of Werl,Westpfalz,Germany.
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 Georgian Index - Rooms at Albany
Albany began its existence as Melbourne House built in 1770 to the design of Sir William Chambers for Peniston Lamb (1748-1828) the 1
The Duke of York wanted the residence as his London house after his marriage to Princess Frederica Charlotte Ulrica of Prussia (1767-1820) in 1791.
The Duke and Duchess of York took possession of the house in early 1793.
www.georgianindex.net /albany/Rooms_at_the_Albany.html   (767 words)

  
 Elmbridge Museum
Princess Charlotte, daughter of the Prince Regent, married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg in 1816 and went to live at Claremont, but she tragically died in childbirth the following year.
Victoria, the daughter of the Duke of Kent, spent part of her childhood at Claremont, where she stayed with her mother and her Uncle Leopold.
He died young a couple of years later, leaving his widow, Helen of Waldeck, the Duchess of Albany, to live there until her death in 1922.
elmbridgemuseum.org.uk /?Document=200.050x2   (267 words)

  
 Clan Stirling Online! Research Library Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
After this, Isabella, his eldest daughter, enjoyed it many years, and she having died without issue in 1459, the earldom, without any forfeiture having taken place, but by reason of the feudal incident of non-entry, fell into the hands of the sovereign as superior.
The estate of Bencloich was sold to Edmonstone of Duntreath in 1660, and was by Sir Archibald Edmonstone sold to Charles Macintosh, Esq., and William Macfarlan, Esq., in 1834.
Glorat was a part of the earldom of Levenax, and Isabella, Duchess of Albany, eldest daughter of the last earl of the old line, was in possession of it, as appears from the Exchequer Rolls, in 1456.
www.clanstirling.org /Main/lib/research/OldCountyFamiliesofStirlin.html   (3725 words)

  
 The Battle of Culloden (continued)
He beat her too, and eight years after marrying him, she ran off with a poet.
Charles then invited his daughter Charlotte to share his home and made her the Duchess of Albany.
In his will, he left most of his money to Charlotte - the Scots who had laid their lives on the line for him and the cause he represented didn't receive a penny.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/8287/cullode2.html   (1158 words)

  
 The Clan Gregor in the last Jacobite Rising of 1745-46
She was the mother of his daughter Charlotte, later Duchess of Albany.
Glencarnaig's brother Evan with 40 men, captured 20 guns and 15 broadswords at a house near Falkirk, and then, with some of the Macdonalds found a hundred stand of muskets at Linlithgow which had been provided for the local militia.
Glengyle was descended through his grandmother, a Campbell of Glenorchy from Robert Duke of Albany, who had built Doune as a fortress and palace when all but King of Scotland at the end of the fourteenth century.
www.broughtysands.co.uk /macgregor45.htm   (4149 words)

  
 Latham insurer to drop local Medicaid Managed Care contracts - The Business Review (Albany):
Blue Shield of Northeastern NY is withdrawing from several government programs, including Medicaid Managed Care contracts, in the Albany, N.Y., Hudson Valley and Plattsburgh, markets.
The Latham insurer, a subsidiary of HealthNow New York of Buffalo, said the decision was made after several years of financial losses in the programs.
The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of bizjournals.
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 Edinburgh to Inverness via Ladybank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
He was the natural son of the Prince's daughter, Charlotte, Duchess of Albany and her lover Prince Ferdinand Roehen, Bishop of Bordeaux.
The Cathedral is a glorious ruin in a glorious setting with lawns sloping down to the river amid some stately trees.
After lunch on the lawn, the young queen was given some Athole Brose - 'that most royal of dishes' - served to her - 'from a quart cup that had belonged to the celebrated Neil Gow'.
www.lawrieweb.com /eil/eil13.html   (1402 words)

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