GRANT, James at Downan ^{2 3}

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James married Margaret ANDERSON, daughter of Alexander ANDERSON Excise Officer in Rothes and Helen GORDON, before 1830.¹ (Margaret ANDERSON was baptised on 25 February 1810 in Rothes and Dundurcas parish, Moray, Scotland ^{4 5}.)

  Marriage Notes:

No marriage record for this couple has been found.

There are ten children of James Grant and Margaret Anderson listed in the Roman Catholic Baptismal Register of the Church of The Incarnation at Tombae, in Banffshire, the first dated 1830:

Margaret (1830)
William Gordon (1833)
Alexander (1835)
Charles (1837)
Christina (1841)
John (1842)
James (1844)
George (1846)
Jane (1848)
Ann (1850)

William Gordon Grant's baptism narrative written by the celebrant James John Gordon reads:
"At Nether Dounan
9th January 1833
No. 2
I the undersigned baptized William Gordon Grant born on the 1^st January 1833, lawful son to John Grant Dounan and Margaret Anderson there." ¹