GRANT, James Minister of Laggan parish, Reverend Mr 1 2 3
- Born: About 1750
- Marriage (1): MACVICAR, Anne on 29 May 1779 in Boleskine and Abertarff parish, Inverness-shire, Scotland 1 2
- Died: 2 December 1801 1
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James married Anne MACVICAR on 29 May 1779 in Boleskine and Abertarff parish, Inverness-shire, Scotland.1 2 (Anne MACVICAR was born on 21 February 1755,1 died on 7 November 1838 in 7 Manor Place, Edinburgh, Scotland 1 and was buried in 1838 in St Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh, Scotland 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"MCVICAR
ANNE
JAMES GRANT/FR180 (FR180)
00/00/1779
092
10 / 203
Boleskine and Abertarff or Fort Aug"
from Index of Marriages
(at Laggan in 1775)
"James Grant, app. Royal Bounty missionary at Fort Augustus 21st Aug. 1769 ; pres. by Alexander, Duke of Gordon, and adm. 21st Sept. 1775 ; app. chaplain to Lord Lynedoch's Regiment of Perthshire Volunteers (the 90th Foot) in 1794 ; died 2nd Dec. 1801. He is described as a man of cultivated tastes, gentle and amiable in manner, and greatly revered and loved by his parishioners. He marr. 29th May 1779, Anne (born 21st Feb. 1755, died at 7 Manor Place, Edinburgh, 7th Nov. 1838, and buried in St Cuthbert s Churchyard), only child of Captain Duncan MacVicar, barrack-master at Fort-Augustus and Fort-George [authoress of Poems on Various Subjects (Edinburgh, 1803) ; Letters from the Mountains, 3 vols. (London, 1806) ; Memoirs of an American Lady, (New York, 1808) ; Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlands, 2 vols. (London, 1811); Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen, a poem (London, 1814)], and had issue Mary, born 8th May 1780, died 14th Nov. 1827; Catherine, born 28th May 1781, died 17th June 1807 ; Isabel, born 10th Dec. 1782, died 16th June 1823; John Lauchlan, born 25th Jan. 1784, died at Glasgow 3rd April 1799 ; Patrick, born 9th March 1785 died 12th May 1789; Duncan Vicars, born 27th Nov. and died 4th Dec. 1786; Duncan James MacVicar, lieut. 7th Regiment Indian Army, born 1st April 1788, died in Surat Aug. 1814; Petrina, born 4th March 1790, died 12th Aug. 1792 ; Charlotte (twin), born 4th March 1790, died 8th April 1807; Anne Louisa Ourry, born 11th April 1792; Moore (daugh.), born 31st Dec. 1795, died at Edinburgh, 1st July 1821 ; John Peter, W.S., Edinburgh, editor of Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs Grant of Laggan, 3 vols. (London, 1844), born 1st June 1799, died 15th Dec. 1870. [Dict. Nat. Biog. ; Memoir of Mrs Grant ; see also her 'Letters concern ing Highland Affairs in the Eighteenth Century'; edited by J. R. N. Macphail (Scot. Hist. Soc. Edin., 1896).]"
from Fasti Ecclesiae 1 2
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