GRANT, Barbara in Blairfindy ^{1 2 3}

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Barbara married John GRANT in Lynebegg, son of George GRANT and Elspet McGOWAN, on 2 December 1827 in Inveravon parish, Banffshire, Scotland.^{1 2 3} (John GRANT in Lynebegg was baptised on 16 May 1805 in Inveravon parish, Banffshire, Scotland and died on 27 October 1889 in Blairfindy, Banffshire, Scotland ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GRANT
BARBARA
JOHN GRANT/
02/12/1827
157 20 / 280
INVERAVON"

from Index of Marriages


Old Parish Registers
Inveravon parish Banffshire
Marriages

"Anno 1827
Grant and Grant
John Grant in Lynebegg and Barbara Grant in Blairfindy were married"




"John Grant 1805-1889

The story of the Glenfarclas Grants, started in 1805, when John Grant, the present Chairman's great-great grandfather, was born on the farm of Lynbeg, in Glenlivet, the heart of Speyside. He lived at Blairfindy Farm, just two miles from his birthplace, and married Barbara Grant in 1827. They had six children, including a son called George, born in 1830.

John Grant became a highly successful farmer, owning several farms in the area and breeding champion Aberdeen Angus cattle. So it was only natural for him to be interested in the Rechlerich Farm, on the Ballindalloch Estate, when it became vacant in 1865. Rechlerich Farm was also renowned in the area for the Glenfarclas Distillery, established in 1836 by the previous tenant farmer Robert Hay. When John Grant signed the tenancy agreement in 1865, he purchased Glenfarclas distillery for £511.19s.0d."

from glenfarclas.co.uk website ^{2 3 5}