PEDIGREE OF THE GRANTS OF GLENMORISTON IN THE PARISH OF URQUHART, INVERNESS-SHIRE
[522][522.01] I - JOHN MOR GRANT: Natural son of John Grant, second Laird of Freuchie. He took a prominent part in family and other transactions, and was distinguished from his brother John Grant, first of Corriemony, by the appellation "Mor". As "filio seniori Johannis Graunt de Fruchy," he received, on 8th December 1509, a Crown Charter to himself and his heirs-male of the lands of Glenmoriston, in the lordship of Urquhart and county of Inverness, which lands were then erected into a barony in his favour. He is also called John Grant of Culcabock, in witnessing the infeftment of his father on 24th January 1509-10, in the barony of Urquhart, and was more commonly known as "of Culcabock" than as "of Glenmoriston." He acquired the lands of Culcabock, Knockintinnel, and the Haugh, in the parish of Inverness, front the Hays of Mayne, and on 19th November 1532 received a Crown Charter of confirmation of these lands. On 7th May 1541 he obtained from Patrick, Bishop of Moray, charters of the lands of Carron, and of Wester Elchies and Kinchirdie in Strathspey, to himself and spouse in liferent, and to two of his sons in fee. He married, first, Elizabeth or Isobella, daughter of Walter Innes, and grand daughter of Sir Robert Innes of that Ilk. By her he had one daughter, but divorcing his first wife, he married, secondly, by papal dispensation, in 1544, Agnes, daughter of William Fraser, and grand-daughter of Thomas, fourth Lord Lovat, by whom he had a son Patrick, who succeeded him in his estates. He had also three natural sons. John Grant of Culcabock died in September 1548.
[522.02] II - PATRICK GRANT OF GLENMORISTON: He was under age when his father died. The ward of the lands of Culcabock, Knockintinnel, and Haugh was given to James Grant of Freuchie on 9th December 1548, and on 4th March following John Grant of Ballindalloch obtained a Crown Charter of the lands of Glenmoriston, which it was alleged had come into the Queen's hands through the death of John Mor Grant without lawful heirs-male. The succession of Patrick Grant to his father was afterwards established against the claims of John Grant of Ballindalloch. and he was retoured heir to his father in the lands and barony of Glenmoriston in November 1566, and in Culcabock, etc., on 4th October 1569. Patrick Grant of Glenmoriston is frequently mentioned in documents between 1565 sad 1580. He was implicated in Huntly's rebellion, for which he obtained a remission in 1569. He also held lands in Inverness, as on 11th January 1574 he sold two roods of burgage land there to Alexander Cuthbert. He witnessed the renunciation of the lands of Finlarg by Patrick Grant of Rothiemurchus on 26th December 1580, and died on 16th March following. He married Beatrice, daughter of Archibald Campbell of Calder, and left issue.
[522.03] ISOBELLA GRANT, who married John Grant of Ballindalloch. Their son, George Grant, as grandson of John Grant of Culcabock and Isobella Innes, claimed to succeed to his grandfather to the exclusion of Patrick, the son of Agnes Fraser, but failed to gain his case. On 9th May 1538 she obtained in liferent from Archibald Campbell of Glenlyon a charter of the lands of Testall Balle, McInteyr, Innernidas, etc., which was confirmed by the Crown on 26th August following. She appears to have died before 1541.
(522.04) [524.01] JOHN ROY GRANT of Carron. He was ancestor of the Grants of Carron, being designed fiar of these lands in the charter granted to his father. See separate Pedigree of the Grants of Carron.
(522.05) [520.10] JAMES GRANT of Wester Elchies: He was ancestor of the Grants of Wester Elchies, being designed fiar of these lands when his father received them in liferent. See separate Pedigree of the Grants of Wester Elchies.
[522.06] ALEXANDER GRANT. He is mentioned in the charters both of Carron and Wester Elchies as successor in the event of failure of heirs-male to his brothers.
[522.07] III - JOHN GRANT OF GLENMORI5TON: He was retoured heir to his father in the lands and barony of Glenmoriston on 19th February 1585, and in the lands of Culcabock, etc., on 3d March 1600. He also obtained service to the latter lands on 29th August 1615 as heir of his grandfather, John Grant of Culcabock, the retour stating that these lands had been in the king's hands for sixty-seven years, or since September 1548. John Grant took an important part in the affairs of his time. He was appointed in 1592 a justice and commissioner for the suppression of disorders in the district, and again in 1622 in the proceedings against the Camerons of Lochiel. He was frequently arbiter in disputes between neighbouring lairds. He held in wadset from the Laird of Freuchie for sonic time the Forest of Cluny, and the lands of Borlum and Balmacaan, in Urquhart; and he also acted as Bailie of the lordship of Urquhart for the Laird of Freuchie. In 1621 he purchased the lands of Kinchirdie for his son John, but sold them again in 1633 to Alexander Cumming. He married Elizabeth Grant, and died before 31st March 1637, leaving issue.
[522.08] ARCHIBALD GRANT, who was fined in 1613 for participating in the reset of the Macgregors, when he is de signed brother to the Laird of Glenmoriston: He also acted as procurator for his brother, John Grant of Glenmoriston, and his son John, in their infeftment in the lands of Kinchirdie on 24th April 1621.
[522.09] LILIAS, who married Alexander Grant, first of Sheuglie [See Pedigree.]
[522.10] IV - PATR1CK GRANT OF GLENMORISTON: During his father's lifetime he frequently appears as a witness to Grant documents from 1605 onwards, under the designations of apparent of Glenmoriston, and eldest lawful son of John Grant of Glenmoriston. He obtained service to his father in the lands of Culcabock, etc., on 31st March 1637. He took part with the Laird of Freuchie in 1640 in giving assurances for James Grant of Carron, the Strathspey freebooter. He married Margaret Fraser, said to be a daughter of Fraser of Culbockie. He died about 1643.
[522.11] JOHN GRANT, Tutor of Glenmoriston, also designed "of Conachan": On 16th March 1643 he was retoured as nearer agnate of his nephew John Grant, lawful son to the late Patrick Grant of Glenmoriston, his brother. He was sometime fiar of the lands of Kinchirdie, acquired for him by his father in 1621. In 1648 James Grant of Freuchie appointed his loving friend, John Grant, Tutor of Glenmoriston, chamberlain of the lordship of Urquhart. He left a son, called Duncan Roy, who was alive in 1702.
[522.12] DUNCAN GRANT, "son lawful to John Grant of Glenmoriston," was on 8th July 1636 a debtor of the then deceased John Grant of Wester Elchies. He received to himself and his spouse. Catherine McDonald, a wadset of the lands of Meikle Daldreggan, on 7th December l652. He had issue. On 29th December 1730, Æneas Grant of Daldreggan was retoured heir of Duncan Grant, his great grandfather, some time in Inach, afterwards of Daldreggan. Thereafter, on 4th March 1731, he disponed the wadset to Ludovick Colquhoun of Luss. In 1718 Alexander Grant, a minister, possessor of Daldreggan, was tutor to Æneas Grant.
[522.13] V - JOHN GRANT OF GLENMORISTON: Designed lawful son to the late Patrick Grant of Glenmoriston in the retour of his uncle John on 16th March 1643. In the following year appears on the Valuation Roll of the county of Inverness as "apparent of Glenmoriston," and his lands are valued at £2482, 1s. 8d. Scots. There was a keen litigation in 1684 between this Laird and the Laird of Freuchie about the redemption of Balmacaan, and an instrument of ejection from these lands, dated 10th March 1687, shows that the legal proceedings were prolonged. On 8th April of that year he entered into an agreement with Mr. James Grant, advocate, afterwards Sir James Grant of Dalvey, who became bound to act as his legal agent in return for a yearly pension. He is said to have married a daughter of Fraser of Struie. He died before 23d June 1703.
[522.14] VI - JOHN GRANT OF GLENMORISTON: Designed "Younger of Glenmoriston" in 1687, when he witnessed the agreement between his father and Mr. James Grant, advocate. On 21st December 1695, he and his brother, Alexander Grant in Blairy, entered into a bond to Murdoch McLeod for 500 merks Sots. On 23d June 1703 he was charged to enter heir to his late father. On 9th March 1714 lie was similarly charged, and to enter heir to other ancestors. He engaged actively in the Rebellion of 1715, in consequence of which his estates were forfeited, and remained in possession of the Crown until 1732, when they were sold to Mr. Ludovick Colquhoun of Luss, advocate, afterwards Sir Ludovick Grant of Grant. He is said to have married, as his first wife, a daughter of Baillie of Dunean, who only survived for a year. He afterwards married, about 1698, Janet, daughter of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, and had issue, it is said ten sons and five daughters, who were all married, so that at the death of Janet Cameron on 9th February 1759, in her eightieth year, her descendants numbered about 200. [Scots Magazine.] John Grant died on 30th November 1736, at the age of 79.
[522.15] ALEXANDER GRANT, designed as "in Blairy," and brother to John Grant of Glenmoriston, in a bond by them of date 21st December 1695.
[522.16] PATRICK GRANT, designed brother-german of John Grant of Glenmoriston, in the marriage-contract of his niece, 19th October 1713.
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[523.01] VII 1 - JOHN GRANT, YOUNGER OF GLENMORISTON: Who, as eldest son of John Grant, late of Glenmoriston, obtained from Mr. Ludovick Colquhoun of Luss in May 1733, a disposition of portions of the lands of Glenmoriston, of which, on 22d June following, he received a Crown Charter. The Laird of Grant arranged with him, and afterwards with his brother Patrick, for the reacquisition of Glenmoriston by them. John Grant predeceased his father on 3d December 1734, aged 35, unmarried.
[523.02] VII 2 - PATRICK GRANT OF GLENMORISTON: He was served heir-male general to his brother John, and also in portions of the lands of Glenmoriston on 18th January 1737. In 1735 he entered into a bond of friendship with Macdonald of Glengarry. He married, it is said, a daughter of John Grant of Craskie, and left issue. He died at Innerwick on 30th March 1786, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.
[523.03] DUNCAN GRANT, described in 1718 as brother to the Laird of Glenmoriston.
[523.04] ALLAN GRANT, who is mentioned as a brother to Grant of Glenmoriston, and a creditor of his in 1743. His daughter is said to have married John Charles Dunn of Higham House, whose only daughter, Mary Anne, married Francis William Grant sixth Earl of Seafield.
[523.05] ISOBEL GRANT, eldest lawful daughter, who married (contract dated 19th October 1713) Alexander Grant of Sheuglie.
[523.06] VIII - PATRICK GRANT OF GLENMORISTON: Who succeeded his father. As Younger of Glenmoriston and eldest son of Patrick Grant, he frequently rendered accounts to the Laird of Grant of the affairs of the estate of Glenmoriston. On 30th June 1757 he contracted marriage with Henrietta, second daughter of James Grant of Rothiemurchus, whereupon Patrick Giant, Elder of Glenmoriston, disponed the estate to himself in liferent, and to Patrick his eldest son in fee. A similar disposition of the superiority was made on 30th November 1773 and a Crown Charter obtained on 7th March following. Patrick Grant died 2d December 1793. By his wife Henrietta Grant he left issue four sons and four daughters.
[523.07] ALEXANDER GRANT, said to be "of the Glenmoriston family". He went to America as lieutenant in one of the Highland regiments. He became a member of the Executive and Legislative Council of Upper Canada, and was for nearly half a century commodore of the fleet on Lake Erie. He died on 8th May 1813, aged eighty, on his estate of Gross Point, near Detroit, North America.
[523.08] CAPTAIN ALLAN GRANT of Innerwick. He died at Inverness on 18th September 1810.
[523.09] MAJOR ALPIN GRANT of Borlum. He gave up his brother Allan's testament in 1811. He died at Borlumbeg, 16th September 1812, leaving issue.
[523.10] LEWIS GRANT
[523.11] HELEN GRANT who married Ranald Macdonell of Scothouse or Scotus, and had issue
[523.12] IX LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN GRANT OF GLENM0RISTON: Who was also colonel in the Inverness-shire militia. He served with the 42d regiment, Royal Highlanders, in India, and was second in command at the siege of Mangalore. On his return home, before 1790, he became major in the Strathspey Fencibles. He was served heir to his father on 27th February 1795. He is called in the Rothiemurchus entail of 1787. He married, before 1789, Elizabeth Townsend Grant, daughter of John Grant, Commissary of Ordnance of New York, who is said to have been a son of Mungo Grant, and grandson of the Laird of Grant; but if related he was more probably a grandson of Mungo Grant of Kinchirdie, through his eldest son John. John Grant of Glenmoriston died on 8th September 1801, and his testament was given up by his eldest son. In it he bequeathed legacies to several of his children and others. Mrs. Grant died at Inverness, 3d April 1814.
[523.13] JAMES GRANT, who is mentioned in his eldest brother's testament, and appointed one of the tutors and curators of his children: He is named in the Rothiemurchus entail of 1787. He was father of Patrick Grant of Balafeary, Sheriff-clerk of Inverness-shire.
[523.14] PATRICK GRANT, who is said to have died in America.
[523.15] WILLIAM GRANT, mentioned in his eldest brother's testament, and appointed one of the tutors and curators of his children. He died at Berhampore on 23d October 1808, in the thirty-seventh year of his age, on the eve of returning to his native country. He heft £5300 to be spent in propagating the Gospel among the natives of India.
[523.16] HELEN GRANT who married, on 22d September 1778, Ewen Cameron of Glenevis, and had issue
[523.17] ELIZABETH GRANT who married Simon Fraser of Foyers, and had issue
[523.18] JANE GRANT designed third daughter who married, in 1781, Charles Mackenzie of Kilcoy, and had issue
[523.19] GRACE GRANT, who married Colin Mathieson of Bennets field, and had issue.
[523.20] X 1 - PATRICK GRANT OF GLENMORISTON: As eldest lawful son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Grant, he gave up the testament of his father on 9th October 1801, and was, on 3d May following, retoured heir to his father, and obtained infeftment in his estates. He died at Foyers on 22d September 1808, sp., and was succeeded by his brother.
[523.21] X 2 - JAMES MURRAY GRANT OF GLENMORISTON, J.P., D.L.: Designed second lawful son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Grant in the latter's testament. He was born 24th June 1792, and on 15th May 1809 was retoured heir-general to his grandfather Patrick, and heir-general of line to his brother Patrick, to whom he was also retoured on 30th of same month heir-special. He executed a precept of clare constat for his own infeftment as heir to his grandfather Patrick, on 13th October 1814, in certain portions of the barony of Glenmoriston, and was infeft the same day. He acquired the lands of Culbin Kintessack, Moy, etc., as heir of tailzie and provision to Colonel Hugh Grant of Moy, to whom he was retoured heir-general on 3d June 1822, and on 5th July following obtained a Crown Charter of these lands. In 1824 he acquired also the lands of Earnhills and others from Captain Gregory Grant. He purchased the lands of Knockie, Foyerbeg, and others. He married, on 5th October 1813, Henrietta, third daughter of Ewen Cameron of Glenevis, and had issue five sons and five daughters. He died at Inverness on 8th August 1868, and was succeeded by his grandson, the present Laird of Glenmoriston. Mrs. Grant, who was born in 1788, survived till 26th June 1871.
[523.22] HENRIETTA ANN GRANT mentioned in her father's testament as eldest lawful daughter. She married, as his second wife, Thomas Fraser of Balnain. His first wife was her cousin, a daughter of Elizabeth Grant and Simon Fraser of Foyers. They had issue.
[523.23] ANN GRANT called in her father's testament second lawful daughter: She married Roderick K. Mackenzie of Flowerburn, and had issue.
[523.24] XI - CAPTAIN JOHN GRANT, YOUNGER OF GLENMORISTON: Late of the 42d Royal Highlanders. He married, first, in 1850, Emily, daughter of James Morrison of Basildon Park, Berks; and, secondly, Anne, daughter of Robert Chadwick, of High Bank, Prestwick, in the county of Lancaster. Captain John Grant pre deceased his father, dying at Moy House, Forres, on 17th August 1867. By his second wife he left issue.
[523.25] EVAN GRANT, colonel in the Indian (Bombay) Army, who distinguished himself by military services in India and the East. He died in London shortly after his return. He married the eldest daughter of Colonel Pears of the Royal Madras Artillery, and had issue one son and four daughters.
[523.26] PATRICK GRANT, E.I.C. Civil Service. He married Elizabeth, second daughter of Donald Charles Cameron of Barcaldine, Argyll shire, and Elizabeth Mathieson, and had issue two sons and four daughters.
[523.27] HUGH GRANT, lieutenant-colonel in the Indian (Bengal) Army: He married in India, and had issue one son and one daughter. He also died in India.
[523.28] JAMES MURRAY GRANT, major-general in the Indian (Madras) Army. He married Helen, third daughter of Donald Charles Cameron of Barcaldine, and Elizabeth Mathieson, and has issue four sons and three daughters.
[523.29] JANE GRANT who married William Unwin of the Colonial Office, and has issue
[523.30] ELIZABETH GRANT, who married Alexander Pierson of the Guynd, Forfarshire, without issue.
[523.31] HELEN GRANT.
[523.32] HARRIET GRANT, who married Frank Morrison of Holepark, Kent, without issue.
[523.33] ISABELLA GRANT, who died unmarried.
[523.34] XII - IAN ROBERT JAMES MURRAY GRANT OF GLENMORISTON: Present Laird. Born 1860. Succeeded his grandfather in 1868. He is a lieutenant in the First Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
[523.35] EWEN GRANT, born 1861.
[523.36] HEATHCOATE SALISBURY GRANT, born 1864. Serving in Royal Navy.
[523.37] FRANK MORRISON SEAFIELD GRANT, born 1865.
[523.38] EMILY GRANT.
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