Menteith Genealogy

Maurice Menteith, of the ancient line of Earls of Menteith, left two daughters.

•  Isabel Menteith.

•  Mary Menteith.

Mary, Countess of Menteith, married Walter, third son of Walter, third High Steward of Scotland, and thus became fifth Earl of Menteith. The issue of this marriage were:

•  Alexander Menteith.

II. Sir John Menteith, who married and had, besides others: Sir Walter Menteith, ancestor of Menteith of Rusky and Kerse¹ or Carse.

This Walter Menteith of Rusky² had, besides others:

•  John Stewart, 1352, who married Marjory Sterling, daughter of Sir John Sterling of Carse and Alva³, son of Sir John Sterling, Knight, of Carne and Alva, Sheriff of Sterling 1244-1270, of Ochiltree, son of Sir Alexander Sterling of Cawdor, 1180-1245.

Sir John Stewart, or Menteith, and Marjory Sterling had, besides others, a daughter who married Sir John Livingston (his first wife) of Callendar and had issue (see Livingston Genealogy).

Notes:

1. Scot's Peerage.

2. Red Book of Menteith, by Fraser.

3. Sterling of Keir, pages 87 and 88, Scot's Peerage.