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GRANT, James 7th of Rothiemurchus, 'The Spreckled Laird'
(About 1686-)
GORDON, Jean
(About 1690-1782)
GRANT, George in Drumfurrich
(About 1723-1816)
DONALDSON, Janet
(About 1750-1834)
GRANT, Alexander of Jamaica
(1774-)

 

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GRANT, Alexander of Jamaica 1 2

  • Baptised: 11 March 1774, Boharm parish, Banffshire, Scotland 2

   User ID: P883

  General Notes:

"GRANT
ALEXANDER
GEORGE GRANT/JANET DONALDSON
M
11/03/1774
128 / A
10 / 240
BOHARM"

from Births and Baptisms




It was this Alexander Grant who bought the estate of Aberlour from James Gordon of Aberlour. It subsequently came into the ownership of his niece Miss Macpherson Grant. (Province of Moray)




"Alexander Grant, of the island of Jamaica, merchant, son and heir of George Grant of Aberlour, county of Banff, by Janet, daughter of John Donaldson of Rothes. - Gules, three antique crowns, or, for Grant, and for difference in the fess point, a dexter arm in armour fessways, couped, proper, garnished, or, holding a cross crosslet fitchee of the last : Crest, a burning mountain proper: Motto, Stabit. [Matriculated 9th May 1810.]"

from Chiefs of Grant 1 2 3


Sources


1 e-books, The History of the Province of Moray by Lachlan Shaw (1882).

2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

3 e-books, The Chiefs of Grant vol. 1 by William Fraser (1883).

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