GRANT, Ludovick 8th of Freuchie and 1st of Grant ^{2 3}

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  General Notes:

"He (Ludovick Grant) was a Member of Parliament in 1690, and one of the committee appointed by that Parliament to visit the universities, colleges, and schools, and to purge them of all insufficient, immoral, and disloyal teachers. He was likewise one of the Lords Commissioners for the plantation of Kirks and valuation of Teinds (Acts Parliament 1690), and so zealous was he to have legal ministers planted in his own estates, that he removed John Stewart at Cromdale, Suene Grant at Duthil, and James Grant at Abernethy, and shut up their churches in 1690 or 1691, till ministers properly qualified for discharging the sacred functions were found."

from History of the Province of Moray ⁵

Ludovick married Janet BRODIE, daughter of Alexander BRODIE 2nd of Lethen and Elizabeth CRAIG, on 16 December 1671. (Janet BRODIE was born about 1650 and died in 1697.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Janet Brodie was the daughter of Alexander Brodie, 2nd of Lethen and Elizabeth Craig. She married Ludovic Grant, 8th of Freuchie and 1st of Grant, son of James Grant, 7th of Freuchie and Lady Mary Stuart, on 16 December 1671. A contract for the marriage of Janet Brodie and Ludovic Grant, 8th of Freuchie and 1st of Grant was signed on 20 December 1671."

from thepeerage.com ⁶

Ludovick next married Jean HOUSTON, daughter of Sir Patrick HOUSTON of that Ilk, 1st Baronet and Anne HAMILTON, on 2 March 1701 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.¹ (Jean HOUSTON was born about 1665 and died on 31 January 1734 ⁷.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GRANT
LODOVICK
JEAN HOUSTOUN OR LOCKHART FR1344 (FR1344)
02/03/1701
685 / 1
450 / 93
Edinburgh"

from Index of Marriages ¹