GRANT, John 4th of Freuchie,'the Gentle' ^{3 4}

   Another name for John was GRANT, John of Mulben.^{2 3}

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John married McCONQUHY?. (McCONQUHY? was born about 1506.)

John next married Margaret STEWART, daughter of John STEWART 3rd Earl of Atholl and Grizel RATTRAY, before 19th February, 1539(1540).^{1 2} (Margaret STEWART was born about 1524 and died in 1555 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Margaret (Stewart), married, before 19 February 1539, to John Grant, fourth of Freuchie. She died in 1555."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




"... he (John Grant) married before 19th February, 1539-40, Lady Margaret Stewart, daughter of John, third Earl of Athole, and she on that date received a Crown Charter of the lands of Mulben and others in the shire of Elgin and Forres, with the lands of the two Culfbichs and others, in the shire of Inverness, in liferent, and she was duly infeft in these lands on the 3rd and 10th November following."

from Rulers of Strathspey
^{1 2}

John next married Janet LESLIE, daughter of George LESLIE 4th Earl of Rothes, Sheriff of Fife and Agnes SOMERVILLE, Before 8 March 1557(charter).^{2 3} (Janet LESLIE was born about 1515 and died on 17 December 1591 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland ^{2 4 5}.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Janet (Leslie) .... was married, secondly, before 15 May 1557, to John Grant of Freuchie, who died in 1585, and whom she survived"

from Scots Peerage (vol 7)




"After remaining a widower for about two years, the Laird (John Grant of Freuchie) took a second wife, Lady Janet Leslie, daughter of the Earl of Rothes, who was herself a widow. The marriage was celebrated before 8th March 1557, as on that date John Grant of Freuchie and Janet Leslie, his spouse, received a Crown charter of the lands of Mulben. Lady Janet Leslie appears to have been the widow of the Laird of Naughton in Fife,as she is designed 'Lady Jeane Leslie, Lady of Naughton,' in a seventeen years' lease granted to her by.Robert Pitcairn, Commendator of Dunfermline, of the teindsheaves of Bogie, Bennochie, Smeatoun, and Balsusnie, in the shire of Fife, dated in the year 1568. She had apparently the liferent of these lands. Lady Janet Leslie survived her second husband, and married again as her third husband, before 8th August 1590, James Elphinstone, brother-german of Robert, third Lord Elphinstone. But she did not long survive her third marriage, having died in Kirkcaldy on 17th December 1591."

from Chiefs of Grant ^{3 4}