ROBERTSON, Unknown ¹

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Unknown married Barbara GRANT, daughter of Lieutenant Charles GRANT of Blairfindy and Balgowan and Second WIFE.¹ (Barbara GRANT was born on 13 December 1824 ¹ and died after 3 December 1859 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"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. According to The Scotsman's report (3rd December, 1859, p.4), 'The advising occupied fully two hours'. She lost the case. [....]

(Lord Colonsay and Oronsay speaking) 'In 1824, on 13th December, the pursuer was born. She is a daughter of Charles by a second marriage, and a half-sister of Robert C. Grant, and, if she had been in existence at the death of Robert, would have been his nearest heir, and would have excluded their father.' [....]

It has not been established what became of Barbara thereafter; probably she lived and died in America."

from Mergers in Messengery ¹