GRANT, James Minister at Nairn, Reverend Mr 1 2
- Baptised: 28 June 1790, Cawdor parish, Nairn, Scotland 1
- Marriage (1): MACINTOSH, Christina on 23 April 1818
- Died: 14 December 1853 2
User ID: V175
General Notes:
"GRANT
JAMES
ALEXANDER GRANT/GRACE FRASER
M
28/06/1790
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Cawdor"
from Births and Baptisms 1 2
James married Christina MACINTOSH on 23 April 1818. (Christina MACINTOSH was born on 12 July 1790 3, baptised in 1790 in Kirkhill parish, Inverness-shire, Scotland 1 and died on 5 February 1877 in Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland.)
Marriage Notes:
(At Nairn in 1815)
"James Grant, born 23rd June 1790, son of Alexander G., min. of Cawdor; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1809); licen. by Presb. of Nairn 21st Sept. 1812; pres. by James Brodie of Brodie 2nd Nov. 1814; ord. 13th July 1815; died 14th Dec. 1853. He marr. 23rd April 1818, Christina (died 5th Feb. 1877), daugh. of John Mackintosh of Phopachy (see Note below), and had issue Alexander, captain 9th Madras Native Infantry, born 28th April 1820, died at Jaulnah 4th Sept. 1860; John Mackintosh, M.A., M.D., born 14th Nov. 1821, died 9th Aug. 1844; George, merchant, Rangoon, born 16th April 1825, died 22nd April 1853; Colonel James Augustus, C.B., C.S.I., LL.D. (Aberdeen 1890;, F.R.S., explorer [with Captain John Hanning Speke] of the Nile, author of A Walk Across Africa (1864), born 11th April 1827, died at Househill, Nairn, 11th Feb. 1891; Margaret Mackintosh, born 28th June 1823 (marr. Peter Mackenzie, D.D., min. of Urquhart (Dingwall) ). Publication Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., xiii.). [Dict. Nat. Biog., Supp. ii., 339 ;Brass in Crypt of St Paul s Cathedral,London.,"
from Fasti Ecclesiae
Note:
In Christian Macintosh's 1790 baptism entry her father is designate as 'at Fopachy', not 'of Phopachy'.
"4. Grizell (Fraser), who was born on the 4th of November, 1752, and married the Rev. Alexander Grant, minister, first of Daviot, and subsequently of Cawdor, who died in 1828, aged 84 years, 65 of which were in the ministry: He is mentioned by Boswell in Dr Johnson's Tour to the Hebrides. By Grizzel of Culduthel he had issue (i) the Rev. James Grant, minister of Nairn, who married Christiana, daughter of John Mackintosh, Midcoul, with issue four sons and one daughter. Three of the sons died unmarried, and the other was the late distinguished Colonel James Augustus Grant, C.B., of Nile celebrity, who was born on the 11th of April, 1827, and married Margaret Lawrie, with issue"
from History of the Frasers of Lovat 4 5
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