SPEAR, Joseph R.N., Captain ^{1 3 4}

Joseph married Grace GRANT first wife, daughter of Captain Ludovick GRANT younger, of Knockando and Anna GUYON of Hampstead, on 14 October 1809 in St Augustine the Less, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.^{1 2 3} (Grace GRANT first wife was born on 6 June 1775 ⁵, baptised on 26 June 1775 in Knockando parish, Moray, Scotland ⁵ and died before 23 July 1821.)

Joseph next married Grace GRANT, daughter of John GRANT and Unknown, on 23 July 1821 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Scotland.^{3 4} (Grace GRANT was born about 1790.)

  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." ^{1 4}