GRANT, John of Ballindalloch, in Dutch service, Captain
- Born: About 1692
- Marriage (1): Daughter of an Episcopal Clergyman in Fife about 1740
- Died: Before 1763
User ID: Q219
John married Daughter of an Episcopal Clergyman in Fife about 1740. (Daughter of an Episcopal Clergyman in Fife was born about 1715.)
Marriage Notes:
"Captain John Grant called of Ballindalloch: He went abroad, and entered, in 1708, the Dutch service, rising slowly, on account of his being a Roman Catholic and only to the rank of captain, in General Colzier's regiment. He married, about 1740, the daughter of an Episcopal clergyman in Fife, but died before 1763, leaving a son and a daughter."
from Chiefs of Grant
"Lady Anne Francisca Leslie, second daughter of Count Patrick Leslie, married John Roy Grant of Ballindalloch in November 1689. By him she had a son, John Grant, who was a captain in the Dutch service, and who professed the Catholic religion. He married the daughter of an Episcopal clergyman in Fife, and she became a convert to the Catholic faith. They had a son, Peter Grant, born in 1741, who was baptized by a Catholic priest. But one of his mother's relations, David Orme, a lawyer in Edinburgh, aware of the penal laws existing against Catholics, brought him over to Scotland from Holland when he was fifteen years of age, and induced him to take the formula prescribed by law, by which he renounced the Catholic faith and professed himself to be a Protestant."
from Family of Leslie
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