GRANT, John ¹

John married Agnes BOYLEN, daughter of Patrick BOYLAN and Catherine KANE. (Agnes BOYLEN was born in 1883 ¹.)

John next married Davindo NARDINI, son of Antonio NARDINI and Costanza CAPRONI, in 1710. (Davindo NARDINI was born about 1888 in Italy ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Mary (Duff), 'married in 1684,

1st to Dr. Andrew Fraser ...

And after Doctor Fraser's death she married, in 1710, Thomas Tulloch of Tannachy, - one of the oldest families in Murray, to whom she had one son Alexander, the present Tannachy, and two daughters, the younger of the two, Elizabeth, married to Alexander Cuming of Craigmiln, who was engaged with Prince Charles in 1745, taken prisoner at Culloden, and died in jail at Carlisle in 1746 (see Note below), leaving, by her, five daughters and two sons, one an officer in France and married to a Frenchwoman, and the other a Miln-wright in Jamaica' (Baird)."

from Book of the Duffs (vol 1)

Note:

Alexander Cuming survived jail, but died later in London, in July 1746.




"Alexander Duff, Keithmore, 1623, had a daughter Mary, married Fraser and Tulloch."

from Book of the Duffs (vol 2)



"His (James Cuming in Presley's) son was William Cuming-of Craigmiln ... from whom was born William the second, who married Marie, daughter of Thomas Ogilvy of Redhyth, Esquire. Their son Alexander Cuming-of Craigmiln married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Tulloch of Tannachie, from a noble and illustrious family on both her father's and mother's sides: it is from this marriage that the Suppliant was born."

from email of Victoir Grux ^{3 4 5 6}