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| McCONDACHT GRANT, Duncan in Gartinbeg
(About 1536-After 1581) |
McCONDACHT GRANT, Duncan in Gartinbeg 1 2
Other names for Duncan were GRANT, Duncan in Gartinbeg,1 3 GRANT, Duncan of Gartenbeg and McCONDOCHIE GRANT, Duncan in Gartinbeg.1 User ID: N177 General Notes: "He (Duncan McCondacht Grant) occurs as a witness in several Grant charters from 1553 to 1581. On 9th January 1553 he was served heir to his father, John Grant in Gartinbeg, in town of (?)maye. On 3d May 1568 he signed a decreet-arbitral for the settlement of a dispute between the Lairds of Freuchie and Kinchirdie, respecting the marches of their lands. He entered into a contract, on 6th December 1565, with Patrick Grant of Dalvey, for the marriage of his daughter Janet to Dalvey's eldest son Patrick, and in 1581, as son and heir to the deceased John Makconachie Grant in Gartinbeg, granted a discharge of the reversion of the lands of Tullochcrue." Duncan married Mary ROSE, daughter of Hugh ROSE 10th of Kilravock, 'The Black Baron' and Unnamed PARTNER OR WIFE.1 (Mary ROSE was born about 1536.) Marriage Notes: "He (Duncan Grant) is said to have married Mary Rose, and to have had had four sons and two daughters. Another account states he was twice married, that the eldest son of the first marriage died s.p., and that Duncan was succeeded in Gartinbeg by the eldest son of the second marriage." Duncan next married Daughter GORDON 'of Huntly', daughter of George GORDON 4th Earl of Huntly, Lord Chancellor and Unnamed PARTNER OR WIFE.1 (Daughter GORDON 'of Huntly' was born about 1538.) Marriage Notes: "Duncan Grant of Gartenbeg |
1 e-books, The Chiefs of Grant vol. 1 by William Fraser (1883) Memoirs.
2 Gaelic Society of Inverness, "Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness vol. XLIII 1960-1963 (1966)", Notes on the Parish of Duthil by D. C. Murray, Inverlaidnan (13th December, 1957).
3 e-books, The Rulers of Strathspey: A History of the Lairds of Grant and Earls of Seafield by the Earl of Cassillis (1911).
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