GRANT, James 3rd of Freuchie 'the Bold' 3
- Born: About 1487
- Marriage (1): FORBES, Elizabeth 1 2 3
- Marriage (2): BARCLAY, Christina 3
- Died: 26 August 1553 3
- Buried: 1553, Duthil Parish, Invernesshire, Scotland 3
Another name for James was GRANT, James 'Sheumas nan Creach'.4
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General Notes:
JAMES GRANT, 3rd of Freuchie, was called Sheumas nan Creach (James of the Forays).
James married Elizabeth FORBES, daughter of John FORBES 6th Lord Forbes and Catherine STEWART.1 2 3 (Elizabeth FORBES was born about 1492.)
Marriage Notes:
"Elizabeth (Forbes), married to John Grant of Freuchie ..." (page 54)
from Scots Peerage (vol 4)
"p. 54, 1. 4, for ' John ' read 'James.' "
from Scots Peerage (vol 9 Addenda et Corrigenda)
"But if Christina Barclay was the second wife of James Grant of Freuchie, there is no clear evidence as to his first wife. In some published pedigrees he is said to have married, first, Lady Janet Leslie, who, however, as will be shown, was the second wife of his son, John Grant, the fourth Laird of Freuchie. Lachlan Shaw, however, states that James Grant married a daughter of John, sixth Lord Forbes, and as this is so far corroborated by other evidence, it is probably correct. There is thus reason to believe that James Grant, third of Freuchie, was twice married, first to Elizabeth Forbes, and secondly to Christina Barclay, who survived him. By these wives he had four sons and five daughters."
from Chiefs of Grant< 1 2 3
James next married Christina BARCLAY.3 (Christina BARCLAY was born about 1510.)
Marriage Notes:
"There is no clear evidence as to the marriage or marriages of this Laird of Freuchie. That he married early in the century is proved by the fact that his son and heir, John Grant, was himself married in 1539, or before it. That the Laird married a lady named Christina Barclay, who survived him, is also proved by her being named as his relict, and entering into an agreement with the executor as to terce, etc.
Who Christina Barclay was has not been ascertained from any document in the Grant charter-chest. In Mr. Chapman's account of the family of Grant, Isobel Barclay, daughter to the Baron of Towie, is said to be the second wife of John Grant of Freuchie, son of James Grant of Freuchie, and she is claimed as their ancestress by the family of Grant of Monymusk. That John Grant of Freuchie had no such wife will be shown in the next memoir ; but the above tradition, though erroneous in detail, may indicate that Christina Barclay, as she was undoubtedly the wife of James Grant of Freuchie, was his second wife.
It is probable also that she was the mother of Archibald Grant in Balhntomb, who in 1581 is described as brother of John Grant of Freuchie, and who must have been much younger than his brother. As he was the ancestor of the family of Monymusk, this would agree with their tradition."
from Chiefs of Grant 3
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