TYRIE, Jean ¹

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Jean married William GRANT of Blairfindy, Jacobite 1745, son of John GRANT younger, of Blairfindy and Helen FORBES.¹ (William GRANT of Blairfindy, Jacobite 1745 was born about 1685 and died in July 1762.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Grant, William, merchant, seigneur, office holder, and politician; b. 15 June 1744 in Blairfindy, Scotland, son of William Grant and Jean Tyrie; d. 5 Oct. 1805 at Quebec, Lower Canada.

William Grant, the son of the laird of Blairfindy, a Jacobite in the Scottish uprising of 1745, was one of at least three brothers to enter the British overseas trade."

from Dictionary of Canadian Biography ¹