SPEAR, Joseph R.N., Captain ^{1 2 3 4}

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Joseph married Grace GRANT (First Wife), daughter of Captain Ludovick GRANT younger, of Knockando and Anna GUYON 'of Hampstead', on 14 September 1809 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.^{1 2} (Grace GRANT (First Wife) was born on 6 June 1775 ⁵, baptised on 26 June 1775 in Knockando parish, Moray, Scotland ^{5 6} and died on 18 July 1819 in Nelson Cottage, Clifton, Gloucestershire, England ⁷.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Grace Grant, called the youngest daughter of the late Captain Ludovick Grant of Knockando, married, 14th September 1809, at Bristol, Captain Joseph Spear"

from Chiefs of Grant




"The subject of this memoir (Captain Joseph Spear) married, 1st, in 1809, Grace, second daughter of Ludovick Grant, eldest son of James Grant, of Knockandow, in Murrayshire, Esq., by Lady Grizel Gordon, third daughter of Charles, second Earl of Aboyne"

Agent.\'96 Joseph Dufaur, Esq."

from Royal Naval Biography/Spear, Joseph (Wikisoource) ²

Joseph next married Grace GRANT (Second Wife), daughter of John GRANT and Unknown, on 23 July 1821 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Scotland.^{2 3 4} (Grace GRANT (Second Wife) was born about 1790.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GRANT
GRACE
JOSEPH CAPTAIN/SPEAR FR4914 (FR4914)
23/07/1821
685 / 1
630 / 59
Edinburgh"

from Index of Marriages


Old Parish Registers
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."




"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 text of her marriage in the parish register, 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.

Grace, the daughter of the minister named Patrick Grant, married Anthony Barclay.< ^{1 3 4}