GRANT, Charles of Blairfindy and Balgowan, Lieutenant 1 2
- Born: About 1758
- Marriage (1): WIFE, First 1
- Marriage (2): WIFE, Second in 1827 1
Another name for Charles was GRANT, Charles of Airlie.1
User ID: N103.
General Notes:
"Yet he (an absconder from justice) seemed to be under the protection of Gordon's brothers-in-law, Lieutenants Charles and Robert Grant. The latter, in his own declaration to the court, admitted that he knew the fugitive 'has been under diligences for several years', and had, as he put it, 'fallen upon' the local Glenlivet messenger-at-arms in the past. 'It is maybe just as well for all parties that he [the 'desperado'] is not apprehended,' the Banff officer quotes John Gordon as saying, enigmatically The brother-in-law, Charles Grant of Airlie (1758-1828), tenant in Blairfindy, described by an informant in this case as a person of 'most notorious character', would be convicted on a related charge of falsehood and fraud at the High Court of Justiciary at Aberdeen in 1813. He was sentenced to four months imprisonment and a fine of one hundred guineas - notwithstanding speeches for the prisoner in mitigation, by Francis Jeffrey ( 1773-1850)." (page 44)
"In 1803 the tenancy to Castletown of Blairfindy would be acquired by Lieutenant Robert Grant (b.1760), Mrs. Gordon in Tomnavoulin' s brother - 'The Dwelling house to be valued by Men, to be mutually chosen & for which he is to pay the appreciated amounts to the Factor for behoof of the Widow of the late Mr. Gordon, of Castletown,' according to his offer. Robert Grant, shortly before his death, would then come to acquire possession of Wester Blairfindy from his brother, Charles, in this unhappy fashion (as recorded in a letter dated 2?1h May 1823 from the local priest in Glenlivet): 'Blairfindy [i.e. Charles] was yesterday turned out of his houses by Castletown [i.e. Robert] and a lawyer'. The notorious reputation of Charles Grant, the elder brother, has already been mentioned, in connection with the criminal case. There would be social scandal too. On 25th June 1823 the priest at Tombae wrote to the priest in Aberdeen: 'you are aware that Mr. Grant Blairfindy's Housekeeper is reported to be in the family way'. The result of a subsequent pregnancy, Barbara, would be legitimated by Charles Grant's second marriage in 1827. Barbara, as Mrs. Robertson, in the 1850s became noted as a pursuer in the Court of Session, in yet another squabble over a will - in this case, that of the halfbrother, who had died before her birth, Robert Charles Grant (1786-1823), advocate in Aberdeen." (page 48)
from Mergers in Messengery 1
Charles married First WIFE.1 (First WIFE was born about 1763.)
Marriage Notes:
No marriage record has been found. References in the court action set in motion by Barbara Grant makes it clear that Robert Charles, her elder brother, was a half-brother and the result of her father's first marriage:
" The result of a subsequent pregnancy, Barbara, would be legitimated by Charles Grant's second marriage in 1827." [....]
"(Lord Colonsay and Oronsay speaking) 'She (Barbara) is a daughter of Charles by a second marriage, and a half-sister of Robert C. Grant' "
from Mergers in Messengery< 1
Charles next married Second WIFE in 1827.1 (Second WIFE was born about 1790.)
Marriage Notes:
"The result of a subsequent pregnancy, Barbara, would be legitimated by Charles Grant's second marriage in 1827."
from Mergers in Messengery 1
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