GRANT, Jean ^{1 2 3}

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Jean married William HAY of Mayne, son of James HAY of Mayne, Burgess of Elgin and Unknown, 1585(contract).^{1 2} (William HAY of Mayne was born about 1561 and died After 1618 and before 1626 ^{2 4}.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Jean Grant. She married, in 1585, William Hay of Mayne, and had issue. (This appears from an original Contract of Marriage, dated 1585, and subscribed by William Hay of Mayne and Alexander Hay of Easter Kennet, Clerk Register, with the names of two sons of the latter, Mr John Hay and Daniel Hay, as witnesses, at Castle Grant). On her marriage Jean Grant had received, as a liferent portion, the rents of the davoch land of Dreggie, and the half davoch of Gaich, and in 1625, after the death of her husband, she sold her liferent rights in these lands to her eldest son, James. Another son, Patrick Hay, is a witness. Owing apparently to the want of some necessary precaution in making up these titles, James Hay was able to lay claim to the possession of these lands with some measure of success, and in 1653, James the seventh Laird of Freuchie, grandson of the Laird who had bought the lands from William Hay, found it to his interest to compromise the matter rather than to renew the litigation."

from Rulers of Strathspey




"A year or two elapsed before the final terms (of the agreement regarding the lands of Inverallan) were arranged. The Laird of Mayne married in the interval, and as his spouse was Jean Grant, a daughter of one of the principal scions of the family, Patrick Grant of Ballindalloch³, it may be supposed that the choice was not altogether his own, though it probably was approved by all parties concerned for the sake of insuring the interment of old feuds, and procuring a stable foundation for present and future amity."

³Original Contract of Marriage, dated 1585, subscribed by William Hay of Mayne, and Alexander Hay of Easter Kennet, Clerk-Register, with the names of two sons of the latter, Mr. John Hay and Daniel Hay as witnesses, at Castle Grant."


"Jean Grant. She married, in 1585, William Hay of Mayne, and had issue. She was a widow in 1626."

from Chiefs of Grant




"Wm. Hay of Mayne and others against Grant of Ballindallach and a number of others for illegal convocation in arms, riot and assault in Elgin.

Edinburgh, 5th February, 1618. Complaint by the King's Advocate, William Hay of Mayne, Jeane Grant, his spouse, and Frances Hay, their son, as follows : On November last, Patrik Grant of Ballandallach [etc....]"

from Records of Elgin ^{1 2 3}