GRANT, Alexander Minister of Urquhart and Glenmoriston, Reverend Mr ^{1 2}

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Alexander married Daughter MACKENZIE, daughter of Reverend Mr John MACKENZIE of Tolly, Minister of Dingwall parish and Daughter FRASER.¹ (Daughter MACKENZIE was born about 1630.)

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(at Urquhart and Glenmoriston in 1624)

"Alexander Grant, educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (29th July 1611); adm. probably before 1624. At a meeting of Synod in April 1624 he was 'ordained to proceid in building of his kirk'; [In the ruined kirk at Kilmore there is a stone inscribed with the words Domus Dei, G. s initials, and date 1630.] In Oct. 1626 he was asked to explain his absence from meetings of the Synod, and answered that he lived 'in the farrest part of the diocie and could have no certaintie'; of the date of the first meeting, and 'as for the second, he could not keep it as it was the appointed day of his marriage'. An Episcopalian at heart, he signed the Covenant with much hesitation, at Forres, 14th May 1639. He died in 1645, having marr. a daugh. of John Mackenzie, min. of Dingwall. [Mackay's Urquhart and Glenmoriston, 349.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae ¹