GRANT, Robert of Kincorth, founder of Northwest Fur Company ^{1 2}

   Another name for Robert was GRANT, Robert of Grantown.⁴

  General Notes:

LIBINDX ENTRY

"Reference No.: NM165183
Surname: GRANT
Forename(s): ROBERT
Occupation: LAIRD OF KINCORTH
Date of Birth: 03 MAR 1752
Place of Birth:
Father's Name: DAVID GRANT LETHENDRY CROMDALE
Mother's Name: MARGARET GRANT
Biography:
Marriage Details
Spouse's Name: ANNE GRANT CROMDALE
Date of Marriage: 04 DEC 1797
Date of Death: 10 AUG 1801
Age: 49
Death Narrative: INTERRED IN CROMDALE CHURCHYARD
Newspaper Articles:
Newspaper Description Date Page/Column
AJ marriage 19/12/1797 3/1
Miscellaneous Articles:
Biographies
1879
biography & copy of gravestone inscription in "Epitaphs & inscriptions from burial grounds & old buildings in the north-east of Scotland, with historical, biographical, genealogical, and antiquarian notes ..." vol II p20-21 by Andrew Jervise - L 929.5
1972
"Robert Grant of Kincorth" by James McCook contained in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p74-75 - L 079
Miscellaneous
1882
copy of inscription on gravestone in Cromdale Churchyard in "The history of the province of Moray ..." vol 1 p236-237 by Lachlan Shaw enlarged by J F S Gordon - L 941.223"

from Libindx

" I cannot resist the temptation of quoting from a letter of Miss Evelyn Grant: "Robert Grant of the North West Company was my grandfather….I have a copy of the marriage certificate of his parents, who were David Grant, only son of Donald Grant of Easter Lethendry, and Margaret, third daughter of Robert Grant of Wester Lethendry-they were married in 1749. These two Lethendrys are about a mile apart just above the village of Cromdale in Strathspey…I am the last of his descendants, and indeed of the whole Lethendy family. His younger brother Cuthbert was also in Canada. He had no brother Charles..it seems probable that he[Charles Grant] and my grandfather were friends out there and……connected through the Glenbeg connection….Glenbeg is near Grantown, a most lovely little glen, but there is nothing there now but a modern farmhouse-though a group of very old hardwood trees indicate where the old home must have been-as in those parts trees only grew around houses. I do not know if there are any descendents of the Glenbeg family left."

"Before his death (Charles Grant died Quebec 1784, son of James Grant), however, he was apparently instrumental in introducing some of his relatives into the Western fur-trade. His cousin, Robert Grant, son of David Grant of Lethendry, went to the West in 1778, and was one of the partners in the North West Company formed in 1779. He is reputed to have built Fort Esperance on the Qu'Appelle River in 1787; and he retired from the fur-trade in 1793 with a "handsome competency", and returned to Scotland. Here he bought the family estate of Kincorth, married, had five children, and died in 1801. His grand-daughter, Miss Evelyn Grant, of Nairn, Scotland, tells me that his tombstone in Cromdale churchyard describes him as "one of the original members of the North West Company of Canada." It seems certain also that Robert Grant's brother Cuthbert followed him into the service of the North West Company, became a partner about 1795, and died at Kaministikwia in 1799."

from William Grant of Carron ^{3 5}

  Research Notes:

KINCORTH AND DALVEY

"DYKE PARISH
...up the river is Kincorth, formerly pertaining to Falconer of Lethin, and given by Alexander of Lethin and Hawkerton to his natural son, Mr. Samuel Falconer (father of Mr. William, minister of Dyke), who sold it to Dunbar of Durn; and Durn sold it, in 1758, to Sir Alexander Grant of Dalvey. Farther up is Easter Moy. This was purchased from the Earl of Ross by Donald,
Thane of Calder, anno 1410 (in the possession of the family of Calder). It was the heritage of a branch of the family of Calder during six generations; and John Campbell of Moy sold it to Alex. Dunbar, son of Westfield, whose son, Ludovick, disponed it to Alexander Duff of Drummuir, who conveyed Moy and Caulbin to his second son, John Duff, and from his creditors Major George Grant made the purchase about 1732; upon whose death in 1755, without issue, these lands came to his nephew. Sir Ludowick Grant of Grant. Moy holdeth of Calder. Next is Wester Moy, pertaining to the late Archibald Dunbar of Dykeside,
Farther south is the barony of Grange Hill. Here the Prior of Pluscarden had a Grangier, or farm, and a cell of monks to manage it. With the other lands of that Priory, it came to the Earl of Dunfermline, who sold it to Mark Dunbar of Durris about the year 1608, from whose descendants Sir Alexander Grant of Dalvey purchased the barony, anno 1740, and in his charter changed the name Grangehill into Dalvey."

from History of Moray ⁶

Robert married Anne GRANT, daughter of Reverend Mr Lewis GRANT Minister of Cromdale and Robina CLERK, on 4 December 1797.¹ (Anne GRANT was born about 1770.)