CHISHOLM, Margaret ¹

   Another name for Margaret was CHISSOLM, Margaret.^{2 3}

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  General Notes:

"CHISSOLM
MARGARET
JOHN CHISSOLM/
F
21/04/1691
100 10 / 109
KILMORACK"

from Births and Baptisms



Old Parish Registers
Kilmorack parish Inverness-shire
Baptisms

"1691
John Chissolm of Comer putted(?) had daughter called Margaret to be baptized Godfathers John(?) Chissolm(?) of Knockfin & alex^r sragn (?) yor of keankell(?)" ^{2 3}

Margaret married Alexander GRANT 4th of Sheuglie, Jacobite 1745, son of James GRANT 3rd of Sheuglie and Janet MACLEAN.¹ (Alexander GRANT 4th of Sheuglie, Jacobite 1745 was born about 1675 ¹ and died in May 1746 in Tilbury Fort, London, England ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Alexander Grant of Sheuglie, who, on 12th March 1700, is designed eldest lawful son and representative of the deceased James Grant of Sheuglie. On 19th [ .... text unclear] he was served heir to his father. On 27th July 1713 he obtained a charter of adjudication of the lands of Inverchannish, in Inverness. He disponed Lochletter to Lewis Grant of Auchterblair in 1724. For taking part in the Rebellion of 1745, he, with his eldest son, was for a time imprisoned in Tilbury Fort, from which they petitioned the Duke of Newcastle. Alexander Grant died there, and was then about seventy years old. He was twice married, first, to Margaret, daughter of John Chisholm of Comar and Strathglass, by whom he had issue .... He was an accomplished musician on the violin and pipes, and composed many well-known airs."

from Chiefs of Grant ¹