Gregor Grant and Margaret Martin

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Hello everyone! 

At the moment, I am looking for information about my ancestors Gregor Grant and Margaret Martin. From ScottishPeople, I found out they were married on 21 April 1774 in Abernethy and Kincardine, Morayshire, Scotland. I know they have at least one son (from his death record) - Gregor Grant, my direct ancestor, born in 1786 and died on 3 August 1858 on South Street, Granton-On-Spey.

Could anyone help me with my search?

Thanks in advance.

[DonM]

Here are "Baptisms" that match the parents in OPR search Grant/Martin only and variants.

GRANT ALEXANDER      GREGOR GRANT/MARGARET MARTIN
M 23/10/1775
Abernethy and Kincardine

GRANT MARGARET      GREGOR GRANT/MARGT. MARTIN
22/02/1793 
Abernethy and Kincardine

The Gregor born 1786 mother was Margaret Cameron

GRANT GREGOR         GEORGE GRANT/MARGRET CAMERON
16/01/1786
Abernethy and Kincardine

Therefore, since his death identifies his parents his birth was lost, never recorded or the registrar wrote it down wrong.

So in addition to the above siblings their may be more just not recorded.

Unless they are mentioned in the Kirk minutes chances of finding them would entail searching all Grant death's from 1855-1880 in the box Mother's Maiden and finding the 12 listed take their ages and see if they fall into the same time; roll the dice and spend coin with Scotland's People.

Good luck

Don

[GR2]

If you haven't already used it, go to Moray Council's free "Libindx" site. It contains a great deal of genealogical information and is searchable.

[countingnames]

Thank you both for the advice!

[Forfarian]

If you haven't already used it, go to Moray Council's free "Libindx" site. It contains a great deal of genealogical information and is searchable.

However it covers only the area of the present Moray, not the historic county of Moray, plus information from local newspapers which may or may not include information from other areas.

The parish of Cromdale Inverallan and Advie, which includes Grantown-on-Spey, was partly in the County of Moray and partly in the County of Inverness, but none of it is in the present Moray.