Appendix II
Rulers of Strathspey
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JOHN GRANT OF CORRIEMONY, son of John Grant, second of Freuchie, who, to distinguish him from his natural brother, John Mor Grant of Culcabok, is designed “filio juniori” in the Charter by King James the Fourth of the lands and Barony of Corriemony, dated 8th December 1509. “Chiefs of Grant,” I pp. lxxxi, 87; III pp. 54-56; R.M.S. 8th December, 1509. He was infeft in the Barony of Corriemony on 25th January 1509-10, and again on 2nd May 1512. "Chiefs” I p. 515 On 13th February 1527, he is mentioned as one of the members of the clan who together with his brother absented themselves from the army at Solway and Wark in a remission granted by James IV, Ibid, I p. 515; III p. 72. He is said to have married a daughter of Strachan of Culloden.
He died in 1533, and was succeeded by his son, “Grants of Corriemony,” by Francis J. Grant, WS Rothesay Herald, pp. 11-14.
JOHN GRANT OF CORRIEMONY. Before the 24th day of March 1535-6, Sasine was given to him of the Barony of Corriemony “Exchequer Rolls” XVI p. 605.
He was infeft in the Barony on 24th May 1536, as heir to his father, John Grant, after the lands had been in the hands of the Crown for three years and a half, and he frequently appears as a witness to Grant documents "Chiefs” I p. 515.
On 20th May 1580, he consented to the co-notaries making a procuratory of resignation of the lands and Barony of Corriemony into the hands of the Crown in favour of Duncan Grant, Ibid, I p. 157 and III pp. 393, 394 and Original Charter at Castle Grant, apparent of Freuchie, who on 19th August the same year, obtained a Charter thereof, Original Charter, Ibid, with precept of sasine, in which John Grant [189] (fifth) of Freuchie, son of Duncan, was infeft on 17th May 1583, R.M.S. 19th August 1580; see “Exchequer Rolls,” xxi p. 480. John Grant of Freuchie had also obtained a Precept on 27th February 1582-3 from King James the Sixth, "Chiefs of Grant" I p. 159 and III pp. 156-157. (The Laird of Corriemony, however, reserved his own liferent in the lands, and another part of the arrangement secured that the Laird of Freuchie would bestow upon him the half town and lands of Cluny in the Lordship of Badenoch and shire of Inverness). He was probably twice married. Fraser states that his second wife was said to he Marjory, daughter of “John Roy “(?) of Ballindalloch, Ibid, 1 p. 515; “Grants of Corriemony,” pp. 14 and 15.
He had two sons and a daughter by his first marriage, and a son by his second.
He also had three natural sons by Margaret, daughter of John Wilson, burgess of Inverness, to two of whom he gave portions of the lands of Pitcherill by Disposition in 1571, which, in 1593, John Grant of Freuchie proposed in a letter to his law agent to reduce. In that letter John Grant of Corriemony is mentioned as deceased. He left issue,
I. JOHN (IAN OG) GRANT OF CORRIEMONY, said to be by first marriage, who was on the 3rd March, 1606, retoured heir general to his father, John Grant of Corriemony, and again on 29th May, 1609 "Grants of Corriemony,” p. 15; “Retours” General; “Retours,” Inverness.
This latter service was sought to be reduced by John Grant of Freuchie “Chiefs,” I p. 515 but the matter was referred to arbitration and decided in 1610 in favour of John Og Grant, who, however, was required to resign the lands that the Laird of Freuchie might complete his title to the superiority, See R.M.S. 31st July 1616. The lands of the Barony of Corriemony were thenceforth to be held of the Lairds of Freuchie instead of directly of the Crown as formerly.
John Grant of Corriemony is mentioned in the Valuation Roll of Inverness-shire, 1644, as holding lands to the value of £188 2s 4d Scots. He married, first, Christian, eldest daughter of Alexander Rose of Cantray, third son of William Rose, 11th Laird of Kilravock, who predeceased him on 16th April 1632, leaving [190] issue. See also “Invernessiana” p. 82 and “The Grants of Corriemony” pp. 15 and 16. He married, secondly, 9th July 1633, Helen, daughter of Patrick Grant of Ballindalloch (Inveraven Register).
He died about 1663, having in 1628 bought back Pitcherill from his half-brother John.
His descendant, Alexander Grant of Corriemony, was wounded in the Rising of 1745, and was concealed, after Culloden, for some weeks in the cave of Morall at Corriemony Waterfall "Urquhart and Glenmoriston,” p. 279; “Grants of Corriemony,” pp. 21-24.
His son, James Grant of Corriemony, Advocate, Edinburgh, sold Corriemony, “Chiefs” 1 p. 515; see also “Urquhart and Glenmoriston,” p. 508 and “The Grants of Corriemony” pp. 26 and 27.
In 1825 he sold that portion of his estate of old called Meikles and Craskaig, thereafter Lakefield, and now Kilmartin, to Patrick Grant of Lochletter and Redcastle and in 1833 Corriemony proper was sold to Thomas Ogilvy. It seems his financial difficulties were partly due to becoming cautioner for John Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus. He left issue.
II. ALEXANDER GRANT OF SHEUGLIE (Alisdair Ruadh), only child of second marriage of John, second of Corriemony, and brother of Ian Og "Chiefs,” I, pp. 516, 517.
On 20th May 1609, he entered into a contract with John Grant of Freuchie to obtain himself served heir to his father, John Grant of Corriemony, and thereafter renounce in favour of John Grant of Freuchie. In return he was to receive a Disposition of the lands of Sheuglie to himself and his sons in succession, “The Grants of Corriemony” p. 38.
In terms of that arrangement he was served heir general to his father on 4th December, 1611, and in 1619 was inhibited for non-fulfilment of the Contract of 1609. On the 30th July 1613, he is designated Allaster Roy Grant in Sogillie in the Clan Gregor Fines Book (R.M.S. X p. 121; XIV pp. 630, 646).
He is said to have married Lilias, daughter of Patrick Grant of Glenmoriston.
In 1630 he is referred to as being dead. He had issue four sons and a daughter, of whom the three eldest sons are described in the Contract of 1609 in their order. [191]
1.JOHN GRANT described in the Contract of 1609 as eldest son, "Chiefs”
I p. 516. He probably predeceased his father.
2. ROBERT GRANT OF SHEUGLIE, named in Contract of 1609 as second son. On 2nd
July 1624 he was retoured heir male of John Grant of Corriemony, his grandfather,
apparently to enable him to fulfil the Contract of 1609 "Retours”
General. In 1628 he received a Disposition of the 1ands of Sheuglie and
Meikles from the Laird of Freuchie to him and Margaret Fraser (daughter of James
Fraser of Balachraggan), his spouse, “The Grants
of Corriemony" p. 38. He had issue.
Mr William Mackay says that according to a family tradition, “Urquhart and Glenmoriston,” p. 509, Alexander Grant, first of Sheuglie, was his father’s eldest son and heir, but was in some manner overreached by his brother John who consequently became proprietor of Corriemony. The above transactions are alluded to as seeming to show that the story is not without foundation.
Charles, Lord Glenelg, and his brother, Sir Robert Grant, Governor of Bombay, were descended from the third son of Robert Grant of Sheuglie, this family therefore being a cadet branch of Sheuglie, “Chiefs” I pp lxxxii, 95, 480; “Urquhart and Glenmoriston,” pp. 496, 510; “Grants of Corriemony,” p. 44.
3. DUNCAN GRANT named in the Contract of 1609 as third son, “Chiefs” I pp. 516, 517.
4. PATRICK GRANT who, along with his father, witnessed the infeftment of Sir John Grant of Freuchie in Urquhart in 1623.
5. MARGARET GRANT who married, before 1630, John Chisholm of Kinneries, See also “Grants of Corriemony” p. 38. On 29th July 1630 Alexander Chisholm granted to Robert Grant of Sheuglie a Discharge for the tocher of £500 Scots, which had been paid to his deceased father by the late Alexander Grant.
Robert Grant of Sheuglie’s grandson, Alexander Grant of Sheuglie “Chiefs,” I p. 436; II pp. 265-267; “Urquhart and Glenmoriston,” pp. 285, 286, 288, was, with his eldest son, James Grant, younger of Sheuglie, imprisoned in Tilbury Fort in 1746 for the part they took in the rising. Alexander died there. Alexander’s great [192] grandson, Patrick Grant of Redcastle, “Chiefs” I pp. 516, 517; “Urquhart and Glenmoriston,” pp. 411, 509 purchased Lakefield and sold Redcastle in 1828. He married Catherine Sophia Grant, a sister of Lord Glenelg.
John Grant, second of Corriemony, left, as has been said, three natural sons, namely:
JAMES GRANT OF PITCHERILL “Chiefs,” I, p. 515 who, on 14th May 1571, obtained from his father, John Grant of Corriemony, a Disposition of the half of the lands of Pitcherill to him and his heirs male, whom failing, to his brothers Gregor and John in like manner.
Along with his brother, “Allister Roy Grant in Soiglie,” and many others of the Clan, he was fined on the 22nd July 1613 as a resetter of the MacGregors, ibid, III pp. 314-316; “Reg. Privy Council” X p. 321, and XIV pp. 629, 630, 647.
In 1624 he disponed his lands of Pitcherill to John Grant, third of Glenmoriston, but afterwards redeemed them and sold them to his brother, John (Og) Grant of Corriemony, in 1628.
He married Katherine Nighean (ie a daughter of) Dhomhnuill MacRuaridh.
GREGOR GRANT who, on 14th May 1571, received a Disposition similar to that of his brother James. Ibid, I p. 515.
He was dead in 1593, and his brother James was served heir to him.
JOHN GRANT mentioned as heir to his two natural brothers in failure of heirs
male to them.
As “filio seniori Johannis Graunt de Freuchy”, he received, at Stirling, 8th December 1509-10, 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, to be called the Barony of Glenmoriston. R.M.S. 8th December 1509-10.
He is also called John Grant of Culcabock in witnessing the infeftrnent 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.” “Chiefs,” I, p. 522.
He acquired the lands of Culcabock, Knockintinnel, and the Haugh from the Hays of Mayne, 22nd July 1532 See, however, “ Invernessiana” pp. 198-200, where two deeds referring to the lands of Culcabock and Knockintinnel are given, one dated 1st December 1519, the other 14th July 1520; from which deeds it appears that although William Hay, Lord of Mayne, was the superior, the lands were held from him by Elizabeth Paterson, who, with consent of Andrew Jack, her spouse, granted John Grant a Charter and he was duly infeft in Culcabock and Knockintinnel, 14th July 1520, and on 19th November 1532 received a Crown Charter of Confirmation of these lands. R.M.S. 19th November 1532. On 7th May, 1541, he obtained from Patrick, Bishop of Moray, a Charter of feu-farm of the lands of Carron, [194] Wester Elloquhy (Wester Elchies) and Kinchirdie in Strathspey to himself and his spouse, Elizabeth Innes, in liferent, and to two of his sons, John Roy (Iain Ruadh) Grant and James Grant, in fee, “Chiefs,” I pp. lxiv, lxv; III p. 367; “Reg. Moraviense” pp. 397, 404. (See also Original Discharge dated 7th May, 1544, in Grant Charter Chest).
The 4th May 1548 is the date of a Charter of Apprising by the Queen Regent to John Grant of Culcabock of the-lands in Lochcarron belonging to Glengarry and his son and of certain lands in Lochalsh belonging to Locheil, "Urquhart and Glenmoriston” pp.105-112; R.M.S. 4th May 1548. These debtors had failed to appear on the 20th May 1547 before the Sheriff and in their absence their lands were apprised from them by an Assize of twenty-one men of probity and position. The debtors’ rights were reserved, however, to Glengarry and Locheil of redeeming the properties by paying the amounts due within seven years. Of this privilege they did not choose to take advantage, and on the expiry of the period of redemption the Charter became absolute.
From an original Summons still preserved at Castle Grant, issued 3rd August 1546, we learn that this apprisal was due to Glengarry and Locheil having failed to obey the order to restore the cattle and effects (or to pay their value and their “profits” for sixteen months to the Laird of Grant and to Glenmoriston) carried off by them in the great raids on Urquhart and Glenmoriston, which took place in October 1544 and April l545. The Grants themselves were not bad at the same game as, on May 11th 1536, James Grant of Freuchie, John Grant of Ballindalloch, and John Grant of Culcabock had to find surety for assisting Hector and the late William Mackintosh in besieging and burning the House of Davy (Daviot) within Strathnaverne (Strathnairn) belonging to James Ogilvie and also houses and buildings of the tenants, for the slaughter of twenty men, women and children, for stouthreif and for resetting and intercommuning in 1534 with the said Hector and William Mackintosh and their accomplices after they had been denounced rebels, (Pitcairn’s “Criminal Trials,” 1 p. 175, “Chiefs,” I, pp. 101, 102).
The Laird of Grant and his tenants were by far the biggest sufferers in these raids, as the value the defenders had to pay him amounted to £10,770 13s 4d Scots, and in the case of Glenmoriston to £718 11s 1d Scots.
John Môr Grant married, first, Elizabeth or Isobella, daughter of Walter Innes, and grand-daughter of Sir Robert Innes of that [195] ilk “Chiefs” I p. 522, and III pp. 387, 368, 374-376. By her he had one daughter, but, divorcing his first wife, he married, secondly, by Papal Dispensation granted in 1544 (Contract dated 1st June 1546) Agnes, daughter of William Fraser of Culbockie, and grand-daughter of Thomas Fraser of Lovat, See “Scots Peerage" Title "Fraser of Lovat,” V pp. 522, 523; “Reg. Moraviense,” p. 404; “Urquhart and Glenmoriston” p. 113; “Invernessiana,’ p. 217 by whom he had a son, Patrick, who succeeded him in the Estates. There seems to be no evidence for certain statements made in Mackenzie’s “History of the Frasers” pp.75 and 600 to the effect that, Agnes Fraser was John Môr Grant’s third wife. A local tradition given in the Rev. A. Sinclair’s “Grants of Glenmoriston,” p. 6, is quoted to the effect that John Môr’s second wife was Isabella, daughter of Thomas, second Lord Fraser of Lovat, widow of Allan Macdonald, fourth of Clanranald (called of Moidart in “Wardlaw MS.” p. 122), and mother of Ronald Gallda, slain at Blar-nan-leine on the 15th July 1544. As it was after this battle that her marriage to John Môr Grant is said to have taken place, it is evident that she has been confused with Agnes Fraser and that she did not marry John Grant. He had also three natural sons.
The Charter to Agnes Fraser by John Grant of Culcabock, which states that the marriage is about to be solemnised between them, is dated 1st June 1546, at “Kynchardy,” R.M.S. 21st August 1546.
John Grant of Culcabock died in September 1548, leaving issue.
I. PATRICK GRANT OF GLENMORISTON, son by second marriage “Chiefs,” I p. 522. He was under age when his father died. The ward of the lands of Culcabock, Knockintinnel, and Haugh was given to James Grant (third) 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 Môr Grant without lawful heirs male, R.M.S. 4th March 1548-9.
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 before 5th December 1566 and in Culcabock and Knockintinnel on 4th October, 1569. “Chiefs,” I p. 522; “Exchequer Rolls,” XIX, p. 556; “Retours,” Inverness, also “Exchequer Rolls,” XX, p. 444.
[196] Patrick Grant of Glenmoriston is frequently mentioned in documents between 1565 and 1580, "Chiefs” III p. 137. He was implicated in Huntly’s Rebellion, and, along with his Chief and other members of the Clan, obtained a remission, dated (Precept dated 3rd) 9th July 1569.
He also held lands in Inverness, as on 11th January 1574 he sold two roods of burgage land there to Alexander Cuthbert "Invernessiana” p. 235.
He witnessed the Charter of Sale of the lands of Finlarg to Patrick Grant of Rothiemurchus on 26th December 1580 by John Grant, fifth of Freuchie, ibid, p. 394.
He died 16th March, 1580-1.
[Graphic: signature of JOHN GRANT OF GLENMORISTON.]
He married, first, Beatrice, daughter of Archibald Campbell of Cawdor, and the house of Invermoriston is traditionally said to have been built by his father-in-law, “Urquhart and Glenmoriston” p. 124. He married, secondly, Janet, daughter of Hugh Fraser, second of Guisachan (who was served to her terce, 31st July 1587), and widow of Thomas Chisholm, younger of Chisholm. She afterwards married Lachlan Mackinnon.
He left issue two sons and a daughter, of whom the eldest son, John, succeeded him, and the daughter Lilias is said to have married Alexander Grant, first of Sheuglie. The present Laird, Ian Robert James Murray Grant of Glenmoriston, is descended from this son John.
Grant of Glenmoriston married, first, 23rd February 1887, Ada Ethel Sophia, youngest daughter of the late Colonel Cuthbert Davidson C.B. whom he divorced 1894 (she married, 26th June 1894, Francis George, second Earl of Northbrook, and died 22nd July 1894) and secondly, 23rd April 1897, Gabrielle, daughter of J. Chaillé Long, of Philadelphia, U.S.A.
[197] John Môr had a daughter,
II. ISABELLA GRANT by first marriage. She married John Grant of Ballindalloch,
“Chiefs” I p. 522; III pp. 374, 375, and supra.
Their son, George Grant, as grandson of John Grant of Culcabock and Isabella
Innes, claimed to succeed to his grandfather to the exclusion of Patrick, the
son of Agnes Fraser, but failed to gain his case.
It appears that she was divorced, as on the 9th May 1538 Archibald Campbell of Glenlyon, in view of approaching marriage, gives Isobella Grant, daughter of John Grant of Culcabock, in liferent, a Charter of the lands of Cestall, Ballemakinteyr, Inveringlas, etc., which was confirmed by the Crown on the 26th August following, R.M.S. 26th August 1538.
Sir William Fraser says she appears to have been dead before 1541.
John Môr Grant also left three natural sons,
JOHN Roy (IAN RUADH) GRANT OF CARRON. On 7th May 1541 he obtained from Patrick, Bishop of Moray, a Charter of feu-farm of the lands of Carron, the grant being to his father in liferent and to himself in fee, with remainder to his two natural brothers, and in default of heirs male to him or them, to James Grant of Freuchie and his heirs, “Reg. Moraviense” p. 397, and supra.
John Grant of Carron was one of the jury of inquest for the retour of John Grant of Freuchie, 6th October 1553, “Chiefs” III p112.
He was an arbiter on the part of his brother, Wester Elchies, in a dispute between him and James Grant of Freuchie respecting the marches of Kinchirdie in 1568 (Decree Arbitral subscribed and sealed at Glencarnie, 3rd May, 1568) Ibid III pp. 386-388; see infra.
On the 6th March 1568-9 he obtained, along with Alexander Grant, his brother, and others of the name of Grant, a respite for fifteen years for being concerned in the slaughter of John Grant of Ballindalloch on the 11th September 1559, “Chiefs,” I p. 524; III p. 283. On 12th January 1573-4 he sold the half of the lands of Auchlichny to John Grant, in Inverlochy, and his son Robert and at a previous date he appears to have sold his lands of Carron, and also Riemore in 1568, as the Bishop of Moray on 26th April 1571, granted confirmation of a Charter of Sale by John Roy Grant of these [198] lands to Elizabeth Maxwell, relict of John Reid of Straloch, “Chiefs” I p. 524; “Reg. Moraviense” p. 397. However this may be, his son, John Grant of Carron, had Carron and so did his son’s descendants in the male line till Captain Lewis Grant of Auchterblair, who married Elizabeth Grant, elder daughter of Colonel John Grant, sixth of Carron, purchased the estate of Carron from the heir male, Charles Grant of Ringorme, about the year 1750, "Chiefs” I p. 525. Captain Lewis’s son, Captain James Grant of Carron, however, sold Carron about 1786 or 1787 to Robert Grant of Wester Elchies. Captain James Grant’s wife Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant Joseph Grant, of the Auchterblair family, was “Mrs Grant of Carron,” the authoress of “Roy’s Wife of Aldivalloch”. She survived her husband, who died in the Abbey of Holyrood House on 14th March 1790 and married, secondly, Dr James Thomas Murray of Dungannon, a physician in Bath, and died, 26th January 1828, aged 82.
John Roy Grant of Carron died on 28th February 1597-8, Ibid, I p. 524.
The famous Strathspey freebooter, James Grant, commonly called Sheumas an Tuim, was a grandson of John Roy Grant, being third son of John Grant of Carron.
Another illegitimate son of John Mor Grant, Ibid, III pp. 367-8 was JAMES GRANT of WESTER ELCHIES, ancestor of the first family of Grants of Wester Elchies. He received the lands of Wester Elchies in feu-farm on 7th May 1541, being designed fiar of these lands when his father received them in liferent, and in 1565 they are set down in the rental of the Bishopric of Moray as feu-farmed to him, “Reg. Moraviense,” p. 404; “Chiefs” I p. 525.
On the 3rd May 1568 we have a decree arbitral defining the boundaries of his lands of Kinchirdie as adjoining those of the Laird of Freuchie, Ibid III pp. 386-388; see supra.
In a similar dispute as to marches in the same year between James Grant and his neighbour, Duncan Grant of Easter Elchies, they resolved, because of their propinquity in blood, to refer the matter to arbitration rather than go to law, and accordingly executed a Deed of Submission for that end on 6th April 1568, Ibid, I p. 123 III pp. 385, 386; see infra.
On 26th November 1577, James Grant sat on the inquest which retoured Margaret Strachan heir to her father, George Strachan [199] of Culloden, “Chiefs” III p. 137. He was also known as the Laird of Kinchirdie in Strathspey, and as such is included in a Precept of Remission to certain Grants who took part with Huntly in 1567 and 1569 (Precept dated 3rd July 1569). He is said to have married the seventh daughter of Hugh Rose of Kilravock by Agnes Urquhart. He had issue two sons, Lachlan and Alexander, Macfarlane’s “Gen. Coll,” Vol. II pp. 489, 490.
James Grant of Wester Elchies died on 23rd February 1591 and was succeeded by his son, Lachlan Grant, who had issue four Sons, “Chiefs” I p. 525: (i) John; (ii) James Grant in Tomdow; (iii) Lachlan; (iv) Duncan; of whom
(i) John succeeded him. In 1621 he had, with his father’s consent, sold
the lands of Kinchirdie to John Grant of Glenmoriston. He died after 10th June
1633 and before 1636 without male issue.
(ii) JAMES GRANT IN TOMDOW, also called of Wester Elchies, was pursued before
the Lords of Council and Session in 1636 by his brother, Lachlan to serve himself
heir to his late brother, John, but was assoilzied, and the lands were given
to Mr Lachlan Grant. He afterwards, in 1644, united with his brother, Lachlan,
in the sale of the lands to James Grant of Freuchie.
(iii) MR LACHLAN GRANT MA Minister at Moy from 1627 to 1649, when he was translated
to Kingussie, Ibid I pp. 524, 525. The lands of
Wester Elchies were adjudicated to him in 1636, but on 18th January 1637 these
lands were adjudicated to John Grant of Carron. These lands were afterwards
disponed and sold to James Grant of Freuchie. He died 6th April 1670.
(iv) DUNCAN GRANT He is probably the Duncan Grant in Wester Elchies, who on
16th July 1646 promised to give satisfaction for wrongs done by him to his chief,
the Laird of Freuchie. He renounced his occupation and possession of the lands
of Wester Elchies in 1650, on a requisition by James Grant of Freuchie, Ibid,
III p. 240.
In 1657, James Grant of Freuchie appointed him his factor for the Parish of Knockando for five years.
[200] A third illegitimate son of John Mör Grant was, “Reg. Moraviense,” pp. 397, 404, 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, “Chiefs of Grant,” III, pp. 367, 368.
ARCHIBALD, fourth son of James Grant, third of Freuchie, probably by second marriage “Chiefs,” I pp. 122-124, 275. He, on 8th March 1580-81, received a Crown Confirmation of a Charter of the Manse of the sub-deanery of Moray, in which he is designated as Archibald Grant in Ballintomb, brother of John Grant of Freuchie, R.M.S. 8th March 1580-1. The original Charter was granted by Mr Patrick Cumming, sub-dean of Moravia or Moray, and dated at Elgin and Edinburgh 20th July and 10th August 1580.
He is one of the signers of a Bond of Friendship between Lords Athol, Murray, Lovat, John Grant of Freuchie, and others, at “Belchastel,” 5th November 1590 "Spalding Club Miscellany,” II, pp. 93, 94.
He married, before 24th October 1596, Isobella Cumming, a daughter of the Laird of Erneside. “Chiefs” I p. 512, and R.M.S. 15th June 1619. On 20th May 1599 the Laird of Freuchie assigned to him and his spouse an annual rent of £100 in return for the loan of £1000.
At Elgin, on 24th October 1596, John Cumming, younger of Erneside, sold to him and his wife certain of the lands of Dalfour, in the Barony of Freuchie, Ibid. From the Confirmation we find that Archibald Grant was dead before 15th June 1619.
He had issue two sons and three daughters, of whom the eldest, Duncan Grant, succeeded him.
I. DUNCAN GRANT appears as a witness to a Charter granted on 24th October 1596 by John Cumming of Erneside and William Cumming, fiar of Erneside, to Archibald Grant in Balmuthie (Ballintomb) and Isobel Cumming, his spouse, as son and apparent heir of the said Archibald.
On 15th June 1619 as Duncan Grant of Thombracathie, he received a Crown Charter confirming the foregoing Charter to his father, R.M.S. 15th June 1619, and another dated 10th June 1609 of the lands of [202] Dalfour, Crofts, and Strathbuckis in the barony of Barmuckity and shire of Elgin and Forres. He succeeded his father in Ballintomb. He married Helen, daughter of Alexander Garden of Tulloch, and had issue,
1. ARCHIBALD GRANT, who succeeded his father after 1623. “P.C. Register” XIII p. 296
On 4th June 1629 Sir John Grant of Freuchie granted a wadset of the lands of Allachie to Archibald Grant of Edinvillie and Margaret Grant, his spouse. He is said to have married Isobel, daughter of John Garden of Lichenstoun, and widow of Yyy Dun, Laird of Raity in the Boyn. He had issue, being the ancestor of the Grants of Monymusk, Sir Francis Grant, first Baronet of Monyrnusk, Lord Cullen, who purchased the estate of Monyrnusk from Sir William Forbes of Monymusk, being fourth in descent from him.
His descendant, Sir Arthur Henry Grant J.P. D.L., ninth Baronet, is the present owner of Monymusk. He married, 1878, Mary, eldest daughter of Captain Henry Sholto Douglas, 42nd Regiment, of Moorlands, Hants. and has issue, a son, Captain Arthur Grant, D.S.O. J.P. for Aberdeenshire, late 12th Lancers, married, 12th October 1909, Evelyn Alice Lindsay; sixth daughter of the late Collingwood Lindsay Wood, Esq., J.P. D.L. of Freeland, Perthshire, and has issue, a daughter, Evelyn Mary Frances, born 4th October 1910.
2. ALEXANDER GRANT OF ALLACHIE “Acta Parl.” VI Pt. II p. 189, and VII p. 508; see also “P.C. Register” Second Series, Vols I and II. In 1649 he was a Commissioner of War for Banffshire, and in 1663 a J.P. for the county of Elgin. He was still alive 21st June 1672, “Chiefs” III p. 473. He married Margaret Grant, daughter of Patrick Ogg, and had issue one son and three daughters.
3. WILLIAM GRANT OF ARDALIE, ancestor of the Grants of Arndilly, Ibid, I p. 514. He sat on the inquest for the retour of Robert Grant of Dalvey, on 26th July 1661. He married Jean, daughter of John Grant of Galdwell and had issue four sons and three daughters.
On the death, in Jamaica August 1779, of Colonel Alexander Grant of Achoynanie and Arndilly, Mary Eleanor Grant, his [203] daughter, succeeded. She married, in 1790, David MacDowall R.N., seventh son of William MacDowall of Garthland and Castle Semple, Renfrewshire. Her husband assumed the additional surname of Grant after MacDowall. She died before 11th August 1832 and was succeeded by her eldest son, William Grant MacDowall Grant, born 30th November 1795, see “Burke’s Landed Gentry” and “Walford’s Landed Gentry”. He married, on 5th December 1825, the Hon. Eleanor Fraser, second daughter of Alexander, fifteenth Lord Saltoun. He died on 29th January 1849, and was succeeded by his brother Hay. He left issue two daughters, of whom the eldest, Marjory-Alexandrina MacDowall Grant, succeeded to Arndilly on the death of her uncle, Hay MacDowall Grant of Arndilly, 20th March 1870. She married, first, Ranald Steuart Menzies of Culdares (who died 1870). Issue, one son, William George Steuart Menzies of Culdares and Arndilly, born 1858. She married, secondly, in 1872, Colonel John Kinloch of Kilrie and Logie, Forfarshire, who, on his marriage, assumed the additional surname of Grant before Kinloch. He died 1894, his wife dying 10th May 1900.
The present laird is a J.P. D.L. for Banffshire; J.P. for Perthshire; and a D.L. for Morayshire. He married, 1883, Constance Anne Ellen, second daughter of Thomas Owen Wethered of Seymour Court, Marlow, Bucks., and has issue a son, Ronald, Lieutenant, Scots Guards, born 8th April 1884.
4. PATRICK, mentioned as “in Ballintomb” on 5th May 1651, when
he grants a discharge with his brothers Alexander and William, as executors
of their mother. He died without heirs male.
5. MARJORY, married Peter Grant of Edinvillie.
6. ELSPETH, married David MacWilliam of Auchmore.
II. JAMES GRANT OF TOMBREACK. He married Elspet, elder daughter of James Leslie
of Edinvillie.
III. MARGARET, married Leslie of Drumferrach.
IV. ISOBEL, married Barclay of Allanbowie.
V. JANETTA, married, in 1594, James Grant of Dalvey.
PATRICK GRANT of Muckerach, afterwards of Rothiemurchus, second son of John Grant, fourth of Freuchie, and his first wife, Lady Margaret Stewart.
In 1570 he received from his father a Charter of the lands of Muckerach and others and before 26th April 1572, he must have received the lands of Rothiemurchus, as in the Charter by Colin Mackenzie of Kintail to his sister Barbara Grant of that date, he is designed “of Rothiemurchus”, “Chiefs,” I p. 509; R.M.S. 18th May 1572, and on 26th December 1580, upon his own resignation, he received another Charter of the same lands, in which he is designed “of Rothiemurchus”, “Chiefs,” I p. 509; III p. 394.
He appears as a witness to the testament of his elder brother Duncan in 1581 and in 1585, when his father died, he was appointed one of his nephew’s curators, Ibid, I p. 509; III pp. 158, 169, 397, 400.
On 6th June 1592, along with Lord Fraser of Lovat, John Grant of Freuchie, and others, he received a commission from King James the Sixth to act against certain Highland rebels and marauders; and on the 20th of the same month he joined with John Grant of Freuchie in a mutual bond of manrent with John Dow (Ian Dubh) Macgregor, Ibid, III, pp. 181.184; see infra.
On 28th April 1597 he is named as an arbiter in a similar Bond between the Lairds of Freuchie and Glengarry, and on 13th September 1599 he holds a like position in a Bond of Submission between Lord Fraser of Lovat and John Grant of Freuchie, Ibid III pp. 190, 195.
Along with the Laird of Freuchie and others he received a commission on the 28th June, 1602, from King James the Sixth to try persons accused of witchcraft, Ibid, III pp. 198, 199.
On 23rd June 1606 he gave a Charter of Wadset of the lands of Ardinsche (Balnespic) to Lachlan Shaw of Strome “The Mackintoshes,” p. 393.
[205] On 11th October 1608 he appears as an arbiter in a dispute between the Grants of Tullochgorm and Wester Elchies, “Chiefs,” III, p. 205-207.
In 1610 he obtained a grant of the lands of Hempriggs in the Barony of Kinloss to him and his spouse Jean Gordon, and we find the same year the Earl of Dunfermline appearing against Patrick Grant in the matter of the escheat of this place, Ibid, I, p. 509; “Reg. Privy Council,” IX pp. 11, 68, 98.
He died before 7th June 1617 according to Fraser, But see “P.C. Reg.” XII pp. 244, 245. He married Jean Gordon, said to be a daughter of the Laird of Echt “Macfarlane’s Gen. Coll.” I p. 111 (Gicht), and by her had two sons, Duncan, who predeceased him, and John, who succeeded him, and apparently a natural son also called John, fined 30th March 1620, for shooting deer, “Reg. Privy Council” XII pp. 244, 245. He is called natural brother to Patrick Grant of Rothiemurchus. If Patrick is not a clerical error for John, this postpones the date of Patrick’s death; and this natural brother John would then be a natural son of the fourth Laird of Freuchie. There is some confusion, as though in 1619 and 1621 we find John Grant designed as of Rothiemurchus, as late as the 20th August, 1623, it is Patrick Grant of Rothiemurchus who is appointed a Justice of the Peace for the shires of Inverness and Cromarty, “P.C. Register” XII pp. 132, 613; XIII 349.
I. DUNCAN, married (contract dated 1st October 1606) Muriel, daughter of George Ross of Balnagown. She survived him, and married (contract dated 4th July 1615) Duncan Grant of Clurie, a natural son of John, fifth of Freuchie. Duncan Grant, younger of Rothiemurchus, left four daughters, of whom the third, Katherine, married (contract dated 29th November 1630) Alexander Shaw, son of John Og Shaw of the Dell of Rothiemurchus, “Chiefs” 1 pp. 196, 509; III p. 418; see infra; “The Mackintoshes and Clan Chattan,” p. 423.
(The Shaws of the Dell were cadets of the old branch of the Clan Chattan, the Shaws [or Mackintoshes] of Rothiemurchus. Rothiemurchus was disponed by “Alan Mackintosh alias Shaw oye [i.e., grandson] to Alister Keir,” who reserved only his own liferent by a Charter of Sale dated at Inverness 26th November 1539 and confirmed by the Bishop of Moray, at Elgin, [206] 3rd January 1539-40, in which latter document Alan is styled “Alanus Keyr McKyntosy”. The purchaser was George, second son and successor of the fourth Earl of Huntly, who, as we have seen, in 1567 gave a Charter to John Grant, fourth of Freuchie, of these lands "The Mackintoshes and Clan Chattan” p. 412; “Reg. Moraviense,” pp. 419, 420; see supra.
Lachlan “Mor”, sixteenth Chief of Mackintosh, endeavoured to get back by negotiation “my own native country of Rothiemurchus”, but unsuccessfully, so he proceeded to harass and annoy the Laird of Freuchie and his son Patrick, not only in Rothiemurchus, but elsewhere, and John Grant, fourth of Freuchie, in his Will, made in 1584, says Patrick has been much “inquietit” in the possession. The dispute does not seem to have been finally settled till 14th June, 1586.) "The Mackintoshes” pp. 151,152, 161; Memorandum, dated 20th February 1568-9; “Chiefs” I p. 152; III pp. 285-292.
II. JOHN GRANT succeeded his father as his brother left only female heirs, “Chiefs,” III, p. 218.
He witnessed an Agreement between the Lairds of Grant and Mackintosh and Cameron of Locheil on 21st September and 10th December 1623, Ibid, III p. 434. By his wife, Margaret Dunbar, daughter of Mr Thomas Dunbar, Dean of Moray, who survived him, and married, secondly, William Mackintosh, he had two sons, “The Mackintoshes” p. 378, (A) James and (B) Patrick. Patrick is named in his brother’s testament. He died before 1651. His eldest son, JAMES GRANT, succeeded him. He died in 1677, his testament being dated 6th April in that year.
He married Grizel Mackintosh, a daughter of William Mackintosh of Kyllachy, Ibid, p. 370, who was called Grizel Mòr, from her great size and abilities. She bore her husband three sons and survived him.
I. The eldest son, PATRICK GRANT, alias MACALPINE. He was born in the year 1665, and succeeded his father in 1677. He was a contemporary and friend of Rob Roy, from whom he received the right to call himself MacAlpine.
In 1713 he received a Charter from Alexander Grant, younger of Grant, of the kirk lands of Rothiemurchus, comprehending the [207] lands of Balnespick, croft of Ardinch, and Dell. He died before 1744, being about eighty years of age. He was twice married, “Chiefs,” I p. 238, first to Mary Grant, daughter of Patrick, Tutor of Grant, from which marriage the present Laird is descended, and secondly, at the age of seventy, to Rachel Grant of Tullochgorm, who survived him. By his two wives be had eight sons and a daughter.
The present laird, John Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus D.L. for Inverness-shire and Banffshire, J.P. for Inverness-shire, Sheriff-Substitute of Inverness-shire, born 1860, married, first, 1882, Edith Mary, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel David Macpherson, Balavil, Inverness-shire; secondly, 4th April 1899, Lady Mary Augusta Pierrepont, daughter of third Earl Manvers and has, with other issue, John Peter, born 1885, 2nd Lieutenant, Lovat’s Scouts.
2. COLONEL WILLIAM GRANT OF BALLINDALLOCH, ancestor of the second family of Grants of Ballindalloch. He entered into a Contract of Marriage on 30th October 1711, with Anne Grant, second daughter of Ludovick Grant of Grant, and about the same time acquired the estates of Ballindalloch, Tullochcarron, and others from John Grant of Ballindalloch and his creditors, Ibid, I p. 330; III p. 494, 495, see infra. He raised one of the independent companies, which was afterwards incorporated into the 42nd Regiment of Infantry known as “The Black Watch”. On 13th February 1727, he obtained a Charter of Resignation of the lands of Ballindalloch and of the hereditary office of Bailie of the Regality of Grant. In 1731 he matriculated his arms in the Lyon Office. He died in May 1733, leaving issue. Anne Grant predeceased him in 1732. He was succeeded by his son, Captain Alexander Grant, who married (Contract dated February 1740) Penuel, fourth surviving daughter of Sir James Grant of Grant. Among other issue the Colonel had a daughter Grace, who married (Contract dated 18th December 1731) George, second son of John Macpherson of Invereshie. From this marriage the present Laird, Sir John Macpherson-Grant, Bart, is descended.
(3) JOHN GRANT.
MUNGO, ninth son of Sir John Grant, sixth of Freuchie, called of Kinchirdie, but sometimes also of Duthil and of Gellovie, “Chiefs” I p. 238.
In a Discharge, dated March 1654, to his eldest brother, James Grant of Freuchie, he styles himself fifth lawful surviving son to the deceased Sir John Grant of Freuchie, Ibid, I p. 270; Original Discharge, dated (15th) March 1654, at Castle Grant. This Discharge acknowledges receiving in that year from his brother the Laird a five years’ lease of the lands of Lettoch.
He is designed as “of Duthil” in 1663, also “of Gellovey” in 1667. He obtained, on 11th June 1667, from David Cumming of Kinchirdie, a Disposition (in which he is designated as in Duthil) of the lands of Kinchirdie, and also of Avielochan and Delnahaitnich, “Chiefs” I p. 277; III pp. 465-467. He was for some time chamberlain and factor to his nephew, Ludovick Grant of Freuchie.
In 1670 he was admonished to beware of Popish leanings; his intention of sending two of his sons to France, to be educated there by “one Father Grant, a seminarie priest,” having been reported. The Synod of Moray warned him not to do so, as he would be answerable to the Lords of Council if he did, Ibid, I p. 287; Records of the Synod of Moray; see Dr Cramond’s "Extracts from the Records of the Synod of Moray,” p. 149.
His brother, James, seventh of Freuchie, on his death appointed him one of the tutors and administrators of his children “Chiefs” I p. 289; III p. 352.
His testament is dated at Kinchirdie, 28th December, 1679, Ibid, I pp. 504, 505.
He was twice married, first, to Margaret Gordon, who died before 12th May 1664, on which date he was contracted to marry Elizabeth (or Elspeth), daughter of John Grant of Gartinmore, Ibid, III, pp. 462, 463.
[209] He had issue by both wives, and was the ancestor of the Grants of Kinchirdie, Gellovie, Knockando, and the later Grants of Gartinbeg. He left issue the following:
I. JOHN GRANT IN TOMDOW, eldest son by first wife, “ Retours General"; “Chiefs” I p. 504. He was served heir general to his father (Quintigern) on 14th June 1695 and in 1697 disponed the lands of Avielochan and Delnahaitnich to his brother Robert. No further trace of him has been found.
II. JAMES GRANT OF GELLOVIE, second son of his father’s first marriage Ibid I p. 504. He is called, in the Disposition by his brother John to Robert Grant of Kinchirdie, “his brother german”, in which Disposition he is said to have had possession of the writs of the subjects disponed since the death of their father. He witnessed a Discharge by Robert Grant of Auchterblair on 21st February 1679 in which he is called lawful son to Mungo Grant of Kinchirdie. In a Disposition by John Grant of Glenmoriston, dated 27th June 1696, he is designated as “of Gelloway”, Ibid, III p. 485. In 1697 he was appointed overseer to the children of Patrick Grant of Wester Elchies. He was also a Bailie of the Regality of Grant, Ibid, I p. lxxxvi. He died before 1710, leaving issue.
1. LACHLAN GRANT OF GELLOVIE, so designed in 1716 in a Discharge granted by him to Colonel William Grant of Ballindalloch, Ibid, I, p. 504. He died in 1732 leaving two sons, of whom the elder, John Grant of Gellovie, as eldest son, gave up his father’s testament, in 1732, and is designated “of Gartinbeg.”
2. LUDOVICK GRANT OF KNOCKANDO called second lawful son of James Grant of Gellovie, Ibid, I pp. 504, 505. He appears frequently in transactions with Colonel William Grant of Ballindalloch and others, between 1710 and 1736. On 22nd June 1713 he obtained a Charter of Resignation and Adjudication under the Great Seal of the lands of Knockando. He married (contract dated 23rd February, 1710) Jean, eldest [210] daughter of John Macpherson of Invereshie, and died on 14th January 1751, leaving issue. After the death of his grandson, 2nd March 1786, Captain Ludovick Grant of Knockando, who had on 21st September 1772 obtained from James Grant of Grant a Disposition of the lands of Ardfour, the estate of Knockando was purchased by Robert Grant, ancestor of the present family of Wester Elchies, “Chiefs” II pp. 93, 213, 253, 261.
3. MUNGO GRANT OF KNOCKANDO, who was retoured heir general to his father on 5th April 1709, Ibid, I, pp. 504, 505. He disponed Knockando in 1713 to Ann Grant, second daughter of Ludovick Grant of Grant, who in turn disponed these lands to Ludovick, second son of the late James Grant of Gellovie, Mungo’s elder brother. In the Disposition Mungo is called brother german of Ludovick. On 14th October 1707, as Mungo Grant of Knockando, he granted a Bond to the Laird of Grant, younger, for £2394 6s 8d.
4. CAPTAIN ALEXANDER GRANT OF GRANTSFIELD, mentioned in 1710 as brother german to Ludovick Grant of Knockando, Ibid, I p. 505. In 1727 he obtained a Charter of Resignation of the lands and barony of Ballogie, now Grantsfield, in the County of Aberdeen. There is a portrait of him at Castle Grant. He died on 28th April 1776 aged 83. He married in December 1739, Margaret, daughter of Patrick Farquharson of Inverey, and left issue three sons. She died at Grantsfield on 3rd April 1753, aged 35, Ibid, II pp. 154, 197, 201, 209, 210, 213, 249, 314.
III. LUDOVICK GRANT, who is described in his father Mungo’s testament as eldest son of the second marriage, Ibid, I p. 504. As such he was heir of provision to the lands of Kinchirdie, but he appears to have died before coming of age, and his brother Robert succeeded to the lands.
IV. ROBERT GRANT OF KINCHIRDIE, second son of his father’s second marriage, Ibid, I pp. 504, 505. He succeeded to the lands of Kinchirdie and a small part of Avielochan, on the death of his brother Ludovick. On 12th January 1697 he received from his brother John a Disposition of Avielochan and Delnahaitnich. [211] On 8th November 1699 he obtained from the Laird of Grant a Charter of Novodamus of these lands. He is named in 1710 as a cautioner in the marriage contract of his nephew, Ludovick Grant of Knockando. He married Anna Grant, who survived him, and as relict executrix gave up his testament on 17th March 1725.
V. PATRICK GRANT, third son of the second marriage, also designed “brother german of Kinchirdie” on 22nd May 1714, when he is called also one of the creditors of Colonel William Grant of Ballindalloch, “Chiefs” I p. 505.
VI. MARGARET, eldest daughter of the second marriage. ibid.
VII. JEAN, second daughter of second marriage. ibid.
VIII. ELSPET, third daughter of second marriage. ibid.
All above three daughters are mentioned in their father’s testament.
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