From the Scottish royal-descended Stewart line, ‘steward’ — Plantation settlers who became one of Donegal and Tyrone's most numerous names.
Scottish Origin · Root meaning ‘steward, keeper of the household’
Stewart takes its name from the office of steward — originally the keeper of a royal or noble household — and belongs to the same line that gave Scotland its royal House of Stuart. Stewart settlers arrived among the earliest Plantation grants in Donegal and Tyrone in the early 1600s.
A name for an office, not a bloodline, that nonetheless carried Scotland's own royal echo into the heart of Ulster.
Irish form: (no Gaelic form)
