GRANT, Sarah Ann 1
User ID: N83. Sarah married John RICHARDSON businessman in Montreal on 12 December 1794.1 2 (John RICHARDSON businessman in Montreal was born in 1754 in Portsoy, Banffshire, Scotland 2 and died on 18 May 1831 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2.) Marriage Notes: "She (Sarah Ann Grant) was the grand-daughter of the Laird of Blairfindy. Her uncles included the prominent Jacobite Colonel David Grant and his younger brother, The Hon. William Grant, Seigneur of St. Rochs etc., Receiver-General of Lower Canada. Sarah's first cousin, Captain David Alexander Grant, married their uncle's stepdaughter, the 4th Baroness de Longueuil, and their son became the 5th Baron de Longueuil. In 1794, Sarah married The Hon. John Richardson who was considered to be the most prominent businessman of his era in Montreal. They were the parents of 7-children (Ann, Everetta, Elizabeth Jane, Charlotte, Helen, John, Thomas)" |