GRANT, David in Lethendry ²

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  General Notes:

"GRANT
DAVID
DONALD GRANT HENRETA CUTHBERT
M
22/09/1715
128 / B
10 / 73
Cromdale and Inverallan"

from Births and Baptisms ³

  Research Notes:

LETHENDRY

"Administrative Areas

Parish: Cromdale, Inverallan And Advie

Former Region: Highland

Former District: Badenoch And Strathspey

Former County: Morayshire


Archaeology Notes NJ02NE 5 08416 27407

(NJ 0840 2740) Castle Lethendy (NR) (Ruins)

OS 6" map, (1938)

Lethendry Castle was occupied by the Jacobites at the time of the Battle of Cromdale, in 1690.

R Douglas 1936.

Known locally as Lethendry Castle, it is a small L-shaped tower probably 16th century, incorporated in the farm buildings of Wester Lethendry. It comprises a basement and at least two storeys, and is constructed of rubble masonry bonded with lime mortar and small stone pinnings."

from Canmore

Note:

Sometimes this place is referred to as Lethendy.

It should not be confused with the place called Lethendy in Forfarshire/Perthshire:

"Lethendy, a parish in Stormont district, Perthshire, whose church stands 4½ miles SW of the post-town and station, Blairgowrie. Since 1806 united ecclesiastically to kinloch, it is bounded E by Kinloch and Blairgowrie, and on all other sides by Caputh and detached sections of Clunie."

from Vision of Britain< ^{4 5}

David married Margaret GRANT, daughter of Robert GRANT of Wester Lethendry and Anne GRANT, in 1749.¹ (Margaret GRANT was baptised on 13 November 1717 in Cromdale and Inverallan parish, Inverness-shire, Scotland and was buried in Cromdale Churchyard, Moray, Scotland.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Lineage - Mr. (Robert) Grant (b. 1801) is a scion of the Dellachaple or Clan-Chiaran, branch of the family of Grant, now represented in chief by the Earl of Seafield. His immediate ancestor, David Grant, of Lethendry, b. 1715 ; m. Margaret,* eldest dau. of Robert Grant, of Glenbeg, by his wife Jobina (see Research Notes on Margaret Grant), dau of Grant, of Ruddery, co. Banff, and has issue,

John, an officer in the army, killed 1781, when serving under Lord Cornwallis in the American war.

Robert, of Kincorth.

Lewis, d. 1803.

James, a military officer, d. at Madras, 1792.

Cuthbert, Merchant in Canada, d. about 1798.

Donald, d. s. p.

Francis, a military officer, d. 1798."

from Landed Gentry




" 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' "

from William Grant of Carron
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