"Scottish Clans: Legend, Logic & Evidence"
"Scottish Clans: Legend, Logic & Evidence" Adrian C Grant (Fastprint 2012) - in 2 volumes + CD. This is the result of 10 years of research with all the benefits of the internet and modern scholarship. It is the definitive work on the origins of the Chiefs of Clan Grant. The general thrust of old Grant MS histories are vindicated once subjected to (mostly chronological) correction only now available and possible. As the title suggests, the work has had to range far and wide across Scottish history to support the argument advanced. The hyperlink takes you to a detailed synopsis and links to the publisher's website.
"The Jacobite Grants of Urquhart & Glenmoriston"
"The Jacobite Grants of Urquhart & Glenmoriston" Chris Grant (2025) This newly published book documents the '45 Rebellion particularly via the transcription of many letters flowing between the participants at the time. This allows a perspective and understanding not available to any historian hitherto. The link is to a "flyer" advert which will take you on to purchasing details.
Other Printed Books
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Chiefs of Grant | Sir William Fraser, 1883 |
| Urquhart and Glenmoriston | Rev William MacKay |
| Story and Song from Lochnessside | Alexander Macdonald |
| Grants of Glenmoriston | Rev Andrew Sinclair |
| Grants of Corrimony | Francis Grant WS |
| Glenmoriston of the Past | John Grant of Glenmoriston |
| In the Shadows of Cairngorm | 1911 |
| Duthil Past & Present | 1910 |
| The Rulers of Strathspey | 1911 |
| The Bissets | Peter Grant |
Extracts from Printed Books
| Title | Date |
|---|---|
| Shaw Text | c1770 |
| Baronage Text | 1773 |
| The Elgin Text | c1830 |
| The Gordon Text | 1882 |
| Peter Grant's Refutation of Fraser | 2010 |
Manuscript Histories & Genealogies
| Grant Histories/Genealogies | Date |
|---|---|
| Monymusk Text | c1715 |
| Cromdale Text | 1729 |
| The Tullochgorm Memoirs | 1752 |
| Tullochgorm Text | Bef. 1772 |
| The Birkenburn MS | 1782 |
Statistical Accounts for parishes in core Grant territory
For page images visit https://stataccscot.ed.ac.uk/static/statacc/dist/home and search for the parish.
As is usual on this site page numbers are indicated in [red square brackets] and footnotes have been incoporated into the text at the point where they occur coloured blue for easy identification.
|
Old Account c1790-95 |
Parish |
New Account c1835-45 |
|---|---|---|
| Old | Duthil | New |
| Old | Rothiemurchus | New |
| Old | Abernethy & Kincardine | New |
| Old | Cromdale, Inverallan & Advie | New |
| Old | Knockando | New |
| Old | Inveraven | New |
| Old | Kirkmichael | New |
| Old | Aberlour | New |
| Old | Urquhart & Glenmoriston | New |
Not included
i. 'The Clan Grant' (1955) [IFG]: This small book by Dr Isabel Frances Grant (granddaughter of Field Marshall Sir Patrick Grant of Tullochgorm through his son Colonel Hugh Gough Grant) is still in print Famedram Publications of Ellon (SBN: 7179 4526 x). In it she supports Fraser's proposition with no proof whatsoever - a view it is understood she later resiled from. Her arguments are far less cogent than in her many other - often most erudite - works.
ii. 'A History of Clan Grant' (1982) [Phillimore 1982 (ISBN 0 85033 422 X)]: The late Sir Patrick Grant, Lord Strathspey, 32nd chief, published this fairly short volume. The main value of this work is the updating of the story since Cassillis' "Rulers of Strathspey". As for the early times, little new information is brought to light, but he does refer to his number in the line and, for the first time, he did try to apply the discipline of a proper timescale to the list. By his doing this, the holes in previous efforts too became all too abundantly clear.