GRANT, John 'Ian Mor', of Glenmoriston, then of Culcabock ¹

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John married Elizabeth INNES, daughter of Walter INNES of Innermarkie (Invermarkie) and Christine GORDON 'of Pitlurg'?.¹ The marriage ended in divorce. (Elizabeth INNES was born about 1490.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John Grant, second of Freuchie, also left a natural son, John (called Ian Mor), ancestor of the Grants of Glenmoriston, and himself first of Glenmoriston. He afterwards acquired Culcabok, and died in September 1548, having married Elizabeth or Isabella, daughter of Walter Innes, and grand-daughter of Sir Robert Innes of that Ilk ; he divorced her and married, secondly, by papal dispensation in 1544, Agnes, daughter of William Fraser"

from Scots Peerage (vol 7) ¹

John next married.

John next married Agnes FRASER, daughter of William FRASER of Tigh-a-Charsa (Teachers), 1st of Guisachan and Wife UNKNOWN, 1544 (papal dispensation) 1 June 1546 (contract).^{1 2} (Agnes FRASER was born about 1515.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John Grant, second of Freuchie .... married, secondly, by papal dispensation in 1544, Agnes, daughter of William Fraser, and grand-daughter of Thomas, second Lord Fraser of Lovat. He left issue, and was the ancestor of the present Laird of Glenmoriston, Ian Robert James Murray Grant."

from Scots Peerage (vol 7)




"Agnes (Fraser), who, in 1546 (marriage contract dated the 1st of June in that year), as his third wife, married John Mor Grant of Tomantoul, first of Glenmoriston, eldest son of John Grant of Freuchie, usually styled the 'Bard Ruadh,' from his being a poet and red-haired. She is designated in a sasine of Culcabock, dated the 7th of August, 1546, 'honesta mulier Agnea Fraser, filia Gulielmus Fraser de Guisachan.' "

from History of the Frasers of Lovat ^{1 2}