GRANT, John (1st) 2nd of Ballindalloch ^{1 3}

   Cause of his death was slain in a quarrel with the Grants of Carron.¹

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  Research Notes:

NUMBERING OF BALLINDALLOCH LAIRDS

In Chiefs of Grant, volume 3, page 525, Index of Persons, Fraser refers to the husband of Isabel Grant and Barbara Gordon as "John, first designed of Ballindalloch", meaning not 'in' Ballindalloch, but 'of' Ballindalloch. Puzzlingly, he then goes on to number the lairds as if that same John was 2nd of Ballindalloch:

"Patrick, third of Ballindalloch"

"Patrick, fourth of Ballindalloch"

"John, fifth of Ballindalloch"

"John, sixth of Ballindalloch"

"John Boy, seventh of Ballindalloch"

John Grant, "first designed of Ballindalloch", was so designed in Charters of Sale in 1529-30 and 1532, but there undoubtedly was a Patrick Grant, described as a prominent member of the Grant family, who, about 1520 "acquired and held Ballindalloch from the Grants of Freuchie." In The Rulers of Strathspey, the Earl of Cassillis says:

"Patrick Grant in Ballindalloch was one of the sureties for completion of the marriage between Donald Cameron, son of Ewen Allanson, Captain of Clan Cameron, and Agnes Grant, third daughter of John Grant, second of Freuchie, named in the Indenture 22nd October, 1520." ⁴

John married Isabella GRANT, daughter of John GRANT 'Ian Mor', of Glenmoriston, then of Culcabock and Elizabeth INNES.^{1 2} The marriage ended in divorced by may 1538. (Isabella GRANT was born about 1510 and died before 1541 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John Grant, first designed of Ballindalloch. He was infeft in the lands of Pitchaish and Foyness in 1525, and in Ballindalloch in 1537. In 1539 he acquired from Patrick, Bishop of Moray, the lands of Advie, Tulchan, Calledir, Rororie, and Advoky, in the barony of Strathspey. He also acquired in 1537 the lands of Easter Urquhard and Cantradoun, in 1543 the lands of Bogside, in 1547 the lands of Tullochcarron, and in 1548 he obtained a charter of the lands of Glenmoriston. He married, first, Isabella, daughter of John Grant of Culcabock and Glenmoriston, and Isabella Innes, by whom he had issue one son George (who claimed the estates of his grandfather, but unsuccessfully)"

from Chiefs of Grant

Note:

It appears this marriage was annulled/divorced. Rulers of Strathspey referring to George Grant, son of this couple says on page 12:

"George, who claimed the estates of his grandfather, John Grant of Culcabock, but unsuccessfully. It appears, however, that the appellant's mother was divorced, as on the 19th May, 1538, in a charter by Archibald Campbell of Glenlyon to her in liferent of the lauds of 'Cestall, Ballemakiuteyr, luveringlas,' etc., the reason is given that it is in view of future matrimony (intuitu matrimonii futuri)." ^{1 2}

John next married Barbara GORDON, daughter of William GORDON 1st of Gight and Janet OGILVY, in 1541.^{1 2 3} (Barbara GORDON was born about 1510 and died after 12 May 1559 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"John Grant .... married .... secondly, in 1541, Barbara Gordon, widow of William Hay, Laird of Lorny, and by her also had issue. He was slain on 11th September 1559 in a quarrel with the Grants of Carron."

from Chiefs of Grant




"Barbara (Gordon), daughter of the first laird. The term 'procreatis' in the extract from the Great Seal, November 1, 1490, already quoted, proves that George, II. of Gight, who was born about 1502 was younger than his sisters. Married first William Hay of Lormy (Fraser's Chiefs of Grant, i., 520). In 1553 there was precept of sasine by George Earl of Erroll in favour of Barbara Hay as heir to William Hay of Lormy her father ('consanguineus noster') in the half of the town of Nether Leask (Antiq. Abd. and Banff, iii., 156). Barbara Gordon, who was probably the mother of this Barbara Hay, married secondly, in 1541, John Grant, the first laird of Ballindalloch (who was a widower at the time), and who was killed on September 11, 1559, by John Roy Grant of Carron."

from Gight ^{1 2 3}