Great
grand
parents

Gen.=+5
        Andrew   Stirling
1751-1823 of Cadder and Drumpellier (bought 1781). Founded: 1/10/1792, Commission House of Stirling, Hunter & Co. London, which became Andrew Stirling & Co. when Mr D. Hunter left.
  Thomas Mayne   Willing
1767-1822
               
m. m. m. m. m. m. m. m.
    Anna Dorothea   Stirling
1762-1830
Jane   Nixon
1770-
       
Grand
parents

Gen.=+4
  m.   John   Stirling
b. 7 OCT 1786
d. 18 DEC 1853 of Eldershaw & of Deanscourt, Cathedral Place, St Andrews
m. Elizabeth   Willing
b. 1796
d. 7 SEP 1874
  m.     m.  
Parents
Gen.=+3
Alexander Shank   Cook
b. 9 DEC 1810
d. 16 JAN 1869 Sheriff of Ross & Cromarty. Son of Rev. Prof. George Cook DD (1772-1845, see DNB) and Diana Shank (or Schank). See info from Don Montague 23/3/09.
m. Jane   Stirling
b. 20 MAY 1817
d. 18 DEC 1863 or 19 Dec
  m.  
Husband,
wife &
siblings

Gen.=+2
George 1842-1867 d. of cholera, unmarried.
John 1843-1879 d. of gangrene, unmarried. Buried in the Sherpur Cantonment Cemetery, Kabul.
Elizabeth 1844-1935 1881 Census:Living with spouse & six children at 4 South Fergus Place, Kircaldy, Fife.
Diana 1846-1890 childless. 1881 Census: Staying with Capt. & Mrs Henry Wylie at Astbury Road, Congleton, Cheshire.
Henry 1851-1879 Went to Queensland in 1874, Natal in 1878. At the outbreak of the Zulu War he got a lieutenancy in a regiment of Native cavalry. He returned invalided to Scotland in June 1879, and died shortly ther> eafter.
Thomas Stirling 1856-1856
Walter 1857-1947 Educ. Fettes & Sandhurst. Commandant Burma Military Police 1891-2, 5h Burma Battalion 1892-99, 43rd Gurkha Rifles, 1900-02.
Alexander Cook
b. 5 NOV 1847
d. 18 SEP 1888 Elm Hurst, Elm Grove, Southsea, Hants
Commander, Royal Navy Commanded HMS Iris at the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882. d. suddenly, of heart disease. Buried St Andrews.
G2, ID=446
m.
Fanny Vining George
b. 12 MAY 1854 Bristol
d. 11 MAY 1925
dau. of Philip George and Fanny ?
G2, ID=447
Children
Gen.=+1
Iris
b. 9 JUL 1884 Portsea, Hants
Alexander
b. 2 APR 1887 Portsea, Hants 1901 Census: apparently boarding at Newton Abbott College, Devon
m.
Living Relative
Grand
children

Gen.=0
  Living Relative
Living Relative
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