GRANT, Alexander in Inverourie, Kirkmichael parish ¹

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  Research Notes:

INVEROURIE

This is not to be confused with the Aberdeenshire town of a similat name . It lies in Kirkmichael parish in Banffshire. It seems to have been part of the estates of Alexander Gordon of Strathavon.


"About this time also the Laird (of Freuchie) brought to a conclusion another litigation between himself and Alexander Gordon of Strathown or Strathavon, which had dragged on in various forms from before the year 1595, and which, as it involved removal from lands, was of a vexatious character. The affair originated in an action of spoliation raised by the Laird of Strathavon, charging the Laird of Freuchie, as heir of his grandfather, with the offence of spoliation of trees, etc., in the complainer's lands of Drummin, Fodderletter, Inverouries, and others, and the forest of Glenavon. This spoliation, it was alleged, began so early as 1575. These lands, or part of them, had been attached to the bailiary of Drummin Castle, when that was held by the Grants, although they formed the subject of disputes so early as 1495. The history of the lands, or the action regarding them, need not be recorded here ; as by a contract betwixt the parties, dated at Edinburgh on 24th March 1612, the Laird of Freuchie gave up any claim he had to them." (page 183)

from Chiefs of Grant



"Inverourie, which is in the parish of Kirkmichael, lies on the Avon, four miles north-west of Tombae and not far from Ballindalloch. The name is preserved to-day in the farm called Mains of Inverourie, but it originally included four small holdings and the famous MacGregors, whose deeds are commemorated on a large table stone at the door of Kirkmichael Church, were brought up on one of them. It is not easy to understand the origin of the name, for there is no stream called Ourie, though a hill burn runs into the mill dam of the Mains and thence into the Avon, opposite the farm of Balcorach."

from The Caterans of Inveraven ^{1 2}

Alexander married Daughter GORDON, daughter of George GORDON in Tombae and Janet GRANT.¹ (Daughter GORDON was born about 1568.)

  Marriage Notes:

"------- Gordon, married Alexander Grant in Inverourie, Kirkmichael."

from The Caterans of Inveraven ¹