GRANT, Margaret ^{2 3 4 5}

  General Notes:

" 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."

from William Grant of Carron ¹

Margaret married David GRANT in Lethendry, Cromdale, son of Donald GRANT of Easter Lethendry and Henrietta CUTHBERT, in 1749.¹ (David GRANT in Lethendry, Cromdale was born in September 1715 ⁴ and was baptised on 22 September 1715 in Cromdale and Inverallan parish, Moray, Scotland ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"I have found a large Monument for Robert Grant of Kincorth (the estate he purchased upon his return from Canada), in the Cromdale church yard; which names his parents, David and Margaret Grant of Lethendry, his wife Ann Grant, daughter of the Rev. Lewis Grant of Cromdale (who wrote the account for Cromdale Parrish in the 1st Statistical account of Scotland (1799), and his twin sons, Robert and Lewis Grant. The monument states that Robert Grant was one of the Founding members of the Northwest Fur Company; so there can be little doubt that this is a collateral line of mine."
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