GRANT, Grace ³

Grace married Lieutenant John THOMSON R.N. on 17 July 1816 in St Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, Scotland.¹ (Lieutenant John THOMSON R.N. was born about 1790.)

  Marriage Notes:

Old Parish Register
St Cuthbert's Parish Edinburgh
Marriages

"Register of Proclamations
17th July 1816
Thomson & Grant
John Thomson Sailor East Richmond Street No 17 and Grace Grant, daughter of the late John Grant, residing Greys Street, gave up their names for Proclamation of Banns Matrimonial
Geo Thomson (signature) Weaver Crosscauseway
Wm. Thomson (signature) Weaver Causewayside 62" ¹

Grace next married Captain Joseph SPEAR R.N. on 23 July 1821 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Scotland.^{2 3} (Captain Joseph SPEAR R.N. was born about 1765 in Weymouth, England ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The subject of this memoir married, 1st, in 1809, Grace, second daughter of Ludovick Grant, of Knockandow, in Murrayshire, Esq., by Lady Grizel Gordon, third daughter of Charles, second Earl of Aboyne; 2dly, Grace, eldest daughter of the Rev. Patrick Grant, and as well as his former lady, a second cousin to the present Earl of Aboyne.

from Royal Naval Biography Supplement

Note: The information that Joseph Spear's second wife Grace was the daughter of Patrick Grant is contradicted by the recordof the marriage which recorded her as the relict of Lieutenant John Thomson R.N.; the father of the Grace Grant who married John Thomson was named as John Grant. Patrick Grant, the minister's daughter Grace in fact married Anthony Barclay.

Old Parish Register
Edinburgh Parish Edinburgh
Marriages

"Edinburgh 23 July 1821
Capt. Joseph Spear. R.Navy S Georges Parish & Mrs Grace Grant same parish Relict Lieut. John Thomson R.N." ^{3 4}