GRANT, John Roy of Phonas (Foyness), 7th of Ballindalloch, Jacobite 1689 ²

   Other names for John were GRANT, John of Ballindalloch ³ and GRANT, John Roy of Ballindalloch.¹

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  General Notes:

"JOHN ROY GRANT, VIITH OK BALLINDALLOCH.

John Roy Grant, Vllth of Ballindalloch, was by this time apparently in very deep water.... John Roy Grant was, according to Fraser, infeft in the lands of Ballindalloch on his father John Grant's resignation in 1682, he undertaking to discharge all his father's debts. He was retoured heir to his uncle, George Grant of Cardells or Kirdels, in the lands and barony of Pitcrov, alias Cardells, in 1685. His second brother, Alexander, was Grant of Kirdels, Sheriff Clerk of Moray, and tacksman of the excise of Banffshire. On 15th March 1688, John Grant of Belndaloch took sasine of the Kirktoune of Inveravine and fishings. Inheriting an estate much encumbered, John Roy was unable to extricate it, and, like most embarrassed landowners of these revolutionary times, he espoused the cause of the 'outs.' At any rate, in 1689 he was early out with Viscount Dundee for King James. He was in Dundee's raid on Perth early in May 1689, when he annexed the Whig laird of Pollock's best bay horse as a remount ! He was present at the victory of Killiecrankie. John Grant of Ballindalloch was one of the Jacobite signatories of a letter from Birse, Aberdeenshire, on i7th August 1689 [....]

On nth July 1690, decree of forfeiture was passed against him and other rebels, but owing to the general settlement of 1691 it does not seem to have been enforced. At the Pasch head court at Banff of that year he appears in the suite roll for Tullochcarron. He was present at the election meeting in Banff on 6th October 1702, when young Boyne and Bracco were elected Commissioners of the shire. Meantime his estate was becoming more involved in debt, and the preceding minute shows that Alexander Grant younger of Grant was in possession, no doubt as principal creditor. Colonel William Grant, a cadet of the Rothiemurcus Grants, who married Anne, sister of Alexander Grant of Grant, by arrangement acquired the estate of Ballindalloch from John Roy and his creditors about the year 1711."

from Records of the County of Banff

John married Ann Francisca LESLIE, daughter of Patrick LESLIE 15th Baron of Balquhain and Elizabeth DOUGLAS, in November 1689.¹ (Ann Francisca LESLIE was born about 1664.)

  Marriage Notes:

"She (Anna Francisca) returned (from Mons) to Scotland in 1680, and was married in November 1689 to John Grant of Ballindalloch."

from Family of Leslie




"292- Charles. 1696, Capt., Col. Lauder's Ft., co-respondent in a divorce suit of John Grant, of Ballindalloch, against Anna Leslie (printed in the Banffshire Herald, 1910, Oct. 1). Son of Patrick, of Laichie, 1129; m Rachel Gordon, heiress of Abergeldie (House of Gordon, i. (94); Bulloch's Gordons in Minmore, 10, 11)."

from Gordons Under Arms




"John Roy Grant married c. 1682 Anne Francisca, second daughter of Count Patrick Leslie of Balquhain. He died before 26th April 1737."

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