PEDIGREE OF THE GRANTS OF KILGRASTON IN THE PARISH OF DUNBARNEY, PERTHSHIRE (FORMERLY OF GLENLOCHY IN PARISH OF ABERNETHY)
[528][528.01] ROBERT GRANT, who appears to have had two sons
[528.02] ALEXANDER or ALISTER GRANT, probably the progenitor of the Grants of Glenlochy
[528.03] PATRICK GRANT McROBIE in Glenbrown, who is mentioned in 1637. There was a Patrick Grant, alias McRobie, in Tullochgorm in 1614.
[528.04] DONALD GRANT McALISTER VIC ROBIE, in Glenlochy. On 30th April 1620 he renounced the wadset of Glenlochy, with McEagle's croft, mill and mill lands thereof, in favour of John Grant of Freuchie, for the redemption money of 500 merks, and on the following day, 1st May, received from him a wadset of an annual rent of £40 Scots, to be uplifted from the lands of Glenlochy. On 19th April 1641 he granted a discharge for this amount to James Grant of Freuchie. He married Beatrice Cumming, who survived him. He died before 1652 leaving issue.
[528.05] GREGOR GRANT who, on 19th April 1641, as lawful son of Patrick Grant in Glenbrown, witnessed a discharge by Donald Grant in Glenlochy
[528.06] ALISTER GRANT in Glenlochy, who is mentioned about 1650 as defender in a law plea with Burnet of Leys.
[528.07] NEIL GRANT who with his brother Thomas, as lawful son of Donald Grant in Glenlochy, witnessed the discharge in 1641
[528.08] THOMAS GRANT.
[528.09] JAMES GRANT in Glenbrown, who is mentioned in 1665, 1666, and 1669 as granting discharges for an annual rent of £80 Scots, from a sum of 1000 merks due by the late James Grant of Freuchie.
[528.10] GREGOR GRANT in Glenlochy, who is mentioned in 1660 and 1661 as granting discharges to James Grant of Freuchie for the annual rent of £40 Scots. He is also mentioned about 1680 in a Note of Herezelds.
[528.11] JAMES GRANT who, as son of James Grant in Glenbrown, in 1666 and 1669 witnessed discharges by his father
[528.12] JOHN GRANT of Glenlochy, who is mentioned in 1665 as taxed for the pleuch of Glenlochy, and as being required in 1678 to proceed to Inverlochy to give his bond to the Commissioners of Council.
[528.13] JOHN GRANT of Glenbrown, who is mentioned as a witness in 1711.
[528.14] PATRICK GRANT of Glenlochy, who is mentioned in the Regality Court Books of Grant in 1698 as one of an assise, and again in 1700 as being obliged to keep his tenants and servants from destroying the woods.
[528.15] JOHN GRANT of Deskie, who, on 10th February 1739 was retoured heir-general to his father, John Grant of Glenbrown.
[528.16] PATRICK GRANT of Glenlochy, who, after alienating his estate of Glenlochy, obtained at his son's request a new lease of it in 1778. He says, in a letter to Sir James Grant, that his predecessors had occupied the estate for eight or more generations. As executor qua creditor, he, on 12th February 1737, gave up the testament of John Grant in Glenlochy. He married Beatrix, daughter of Donald Grant of Inverlochy, who predeceased him on 24th January 1780, aged sixty-nine. He died on 15th April 1783, leaving issue.
[528.17] SARAH GRANT, who is frequently mentioned as aunt of John Grant of Kilgraston. She was alive in 1794, and had two sons, Peter and James Grant, in Thomaclaggan, who also left issue.
[528.18] JOHN GRANT of Kilgraston, who studied for the English Bar He afterwards went to Jamaica, where he succeeded Thomas French as Chief Justice of that island, and held the office till 1790. He then returned to his native country, and having purchased the estate of Kilgraston in Perthshire, he lived retired from public life till his death, on 29th March 1793. As the Hon. John Grant of Glenlochy he matriculated his arms in the Lyon Office on 6th November 1783. He married Margaret, daughter of Roderick Macleod, Edinburgh, and sister of Sir Alexander Macleod (Lord Bannatyne), who survived him, dying on 3d December 1825. They had no issue.
[528.19] FRANCIS GRANT of Kilgraston, who succeeded his elder brother John in Kilgraston as heir of entail. He possessed large estates in Jamaica, and was there with his brother, being also appointed aide de-camp to Commander-in-Chief Clarke, but he returned to Scotland about the same time. He added to the estate of Kilgraston the contiguous lands of Pitkeathly. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Perthshire on 2d October 1798. He married Anne, eldest daughter of Robert Oliphant of Rossie, postmaster-general of Scotland, who survived him, dying on 6th November 1837, aged seventy-two. Mr. Grant died on 26th July 1818, aged seventy-two, leaving issue.
[528.20] MARGARET GRANT, who married Patrick Johnstone, farmer at Whitehouse and Westfield. She is mentioned in the will of her elder brother as legatee of an annuity of £50, while her two sons, John and James, were legatees of £500 each, and with their issue male or female were heirs of entail after the descendants of Francis Grant.
[528.21] Another daughter, who married Grant of Delmore
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[529.01] JOHN GRANT of Kilgraston, who succeeded his father: He was born on 13th June 1798. He held a commission in the army, was in 1819 appointed a deputy-lieutenant of Perthshire, and also held the offices of J.P. and Commissioner of Supply for that county. He was twice married, first, on 20th June 1820, to the Hon. Margaret, eldest daughter of Francis Lord Gray of Gray, who died 23d April 1821, leaving issue; secondly, on 14th March 1828, the Lady Lucy Bruce, third daughter of Thomas Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, who survived her husband, and died on 5th September 1881. John Grant died at London on 20th January 1873. in the previous year the family mansion was destroyed by fire. It was afterwards rebuilt.
[529.02] ROBERT GRANT born 17th December 1739, and died at St. Helena, while serving as midshipman in H.M S. Vigo, on 17th December 1820, his twenty first birthday.
[529.03] HENRY DUNDAS GRANT, born on 7th August 1801, and died unmarried on 24th January 1824.
[529.04] SIR FRANCIS GRANT, born 18th January 1803. He was an eminent artist, being admitted an associate in 1842, and R.A. in 1851. In 1866 he was elected Pre silent of the Royal Academy, and was knighted on the occasion. In 1870 he received from the University of Oxford the honorary degree of DCL He married, first, in 1826, Emilia, eldest daughter of James Farquharson of Invercauld, who died in 1827; and secondly, in July 1829, Isabella Elizabeth, third daughter of Richard Norman. He died at Melton Mowbray on 5th October 1878, aged seventy-five, leaving issue.
[529.05] GENERAL SIR JAMES HOPE GRANT, born 22d July 1808. He was a distinguished soldier, and served in the China campaigns of 1841-2 and 1860-1, the Indian campaigns of 1845, 1848-9, 1857-8, and others. His bravery was such as to command the public thanks of the Government of India, and of both British Houses of Parliament. He was successively appointed C.B., K.C.B., and G.C.B, and was presented with the Legion of Honour by France. From 1861 to 1865 he was Commander-in-Chief of the army of Madras, and was latterly appointed Quartermaster - General, and placed in command at Aldershot. He married Helen Talor, without issue. He died on 7th March 1875, aged sixty-seven.
[529.06] MARY ANNE GRANT, born 2lst January 1797. She married General James Lindsay of Balcarres, but died on 14th July 1820, without leaving issue.
[529.07] CATHERINE ANNE GRANT, born 13th December 1804. She married R. C. Graham Speirs, afterwards Sheriff of Edinburgh, and died on 23d January 1871, leaving issue one daughter, Anne, wife of Sir George Home Speirs Baronet.
[529.08] FRANCIS AUGUSTUS GRANT, born 24th February 1829, lieutenant in 79th Highlanders, aide-de-camp to Earl of Elgin in Canada: He died in the Crimea 1st October 1854, just after taking part in the battle of Alma.
[529.09] CHARLES THOMAS CONSTANTINE GRANT of Kilgraston, J.P., DL. and Commissioner of Supply for Perthshire: He was born 2d July 1831, and succeeded his father in 1873. He was formerly in the Royal Navy, and also in the service of the Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo). He married, on 8th October 1856, Janet Matilda, fifth daughter of William Hay of Dunse Castle, and has issue.
[529.10] ARTHUR GRANT born 27th July 1832, lieutenant in 11th Madras Native Infantry: He died at Viziniagram on 15th September 1853.
[529.11] JOHN LUDOVICK GRANT, born 31st May 1839, died 10th May 1854.
[529.12] CAPTAIN ROBERT HENRY GRANT, born 16th December 1840. He held commission in Royal Artillery, and Was successively aide-dc-camp to Sir Hope Grant, the Earl of Elgin, and Lord Mayo in India. He was Quarter-master General to the Prince of Wales's camp in India, whom he accompanied on his tour there. He died at Cannes on 16th April 1878, aged thirty-six.
[529.13] ALAN RUDOLPH GRANT, born 28th February 1843, formerly in Borneo, now in Forest Department, Bengal, India.
[529.14] ALARIC FREDERICK GRANT, born l7th August 1844, lieutenant RN
[529.15] MARGARET GRANT only child of first marriage born 14th April 1821: She married 10th November 1840 the Hon David Henry Murray, son of William, third Earl of Mansfield, but was left a widow on 5th September 1862 without children. On the death of her aunt, Madelina Baroness Gray, in 1869, she succeeded to her title and estates as Baroness Gray. She died at London on 26th May 1878 in her fifty-eighth year.
[529.16] MARY GRANT born 16th March 1830 She is an accomplished artist in sculpture.
[529.17] ANNE GRANT born 13th March 1834 married Captain J Brooke, Rajah Mudah of Sarawak Borneo. She died 25th November 1858, leaving surviving issue one son JCE Hope Brooke.
[529.18] MATILDA CATHERINE GRANT born 17th April 1835. She died 2d March 1842
[529.19] LUCY GRANT born 5th October 1836. She married, on 27th September 1866, the Rev the Hon. Charles WA Fielding, Rector of Stapleton Salop. She died on 16th January 1875, leaving issue 4 sons and one daughter.
[529.20] ELIZA LOUISA GRANT born 14th December 1837. She died on 1st December 1842.
[529.21] CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA GRANT, born 12th January 1849. She is resident at Kilburn Home and Orphanage, London.
[529.22] JOHN EMILIUS GRANT, born 27th February 1827 and died in January 1847 in China.
[529.23] NORMAN HORATIO GRANT born 11th April 1830, died 6th December 1832.
[529.24] COLONEL FRANCIS RICHARD CHARLES GRANT born 21st February 1834. He served with the 9th Lancers during the Indian Mutiny and was afterwards in the 5th Lancers.
[529.25] FERDINAND CAIB HOPE GRANT born 10th December 1839. he entered into Holy Orders and died 7th May 1875. He married Frances, daughter of Canon Eaton and had issue one son.
[529.26] MARIA ISABELLA GRANT, born 30th November 1831. She married, in 1852, Sir Patrick Geary, and died on 19th January 1854
[529.27] ANNE EMILY SOPHIA GRANT born 27th September 1835. She married on 15th April 1857, William Thomas Markham of Becca Hall, Yorkshire and died 20th July 1880, leaving issue.
[529.28] RACHEL ELIZABETH GRANT born 14th October 1841. She married in 1865, Charles A North, and died on 1st Feb. 1871.
[529.29] ELIZABETH CATHERINE GRANT, born 26th September 1847.
[529.30] JOHN GRANT born on 14th October 1867. He died on 2d September 1868.
[529.31] JOHN PATRICK GRANT born 18th July 1872.
[529.32] LUCY BLANCHE CORDELIA GRANT, born on 5th August 1857. She married Uthred James Hay, elder son of Sir William Dunbar, Baronet, of Mochrum.
[529.33] ANNIE GRANT born on 3d February 1860
[529.34] CONSTANCE MARY GRANT born on 15th May 1862
[529.35] MARGARET GRANT born on 2nd May 1864
[529.36] BEATRICE GRANT born on 7th May 1866
[529.37] FRANCIS THOMAS HOPE GRANT born 16th February 1865.
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