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GRANT, Duncan?
- Born: About 1475
- Marriage (1): Unknown
User ID: Q98
General Notes:
"As we can see also elsewhere, Sir William Fraser draws a veil over the origins of this family \endash perhaps to preserve 'decorum', even though he has no choice but to acknowledge "natural" (ie illegitimate) sons elsewhere in his narrative. So the head of his pedigree is one John McConquhy or MacConachie Grant who, he says died shortly before 1553. So we should understand that this John's father was called Duncan. If John McConquhy had lived a full life we might suppose that he would have been born c1480 and so his father c1465, but as we shall see this is highly unlikely to be the case.
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The 'traditional' MS histories take a very different line, but in this case they are at variance.
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But both are agreed that the founder of the family was called Duncan and that his mother was a Lady's Maid at what would later become Castle Grant.
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Duncan McCondacht Grant so we need to be even more generous with the time gap \endash and assign a date of c1525. Duncan was the eldest son and heir of
John McConquhy Grant so we might reasonably guess at his birth being around 1500, giving a likely birth date for his father
Duncan Grant around 1475."
from The Grants of Gartinbeg
Duncan? married.
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