trainer304@cox.net in June 2004
My great-great-great-great grandfather was Walter Grant of Mooncoin, Ireland.
He married Mary Dunphy and had at least three sons...John (b: March 28, 1785),
Edward and James (b: April 12, 1793). The brothers moved to Nova Scotia. James
became a priest.
We are having a family reunion of the Coles/Grants on June 17th in Rhode Island.
I know for a fact that NO ONE knows the family history as you have detailed.
I do have a question, though. I have read and reread your pages. I am not sure
of the line to Walter Grant. I am not exactly sure of his parents. I find them
listed on your site in the Index under Iverk.
Pat Perry
40 Crossing Drive #102
Cumberland, RI 02864
(401) 475-1537
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2007 - editor@pqinternational.co.uk - Roger Chatterton-Newman
I was most interested to come across your website - by chance, as I was googling poor old Kilmurry! I see that, on the family tree, you show Susanna (who married my Victorian cousin Justly Chatterton) as being the daughter of Lt Col Jasper Grant, 41st Regt, who died in 1811. According to my family records, Susanna was the daughter of Col Thomas St John Grant of Kilmurry & Youghal, sometime Lt Governor of Carlisle, and his wife Sarah, daughter of Sir Richard Musgrave Bt, of Tourin, Co Waterford. Susanna married Capt (Thomas) Justly Green Chatterton, 35th (Royal Sussex) Regt, 13 April 1844. Her father was still very much alive at the time, as he is supposed to have given the young couple Rockville, Youghal, which was to be their home for the rest of their lives. Susanna died on 17 December 1863, aged 52, Justly (as he was always known) on 25 May 1884. They had four daughters - Caroline, who married Timothy Wilson, RIC County Inspector, Galway; Charlotte, who married Desmond Baines; and Isabella and Catherine who inherited Rockville from their father and died unmarried. Catherine survived the longest and died around the 1920s.
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Judyorlan@aol.com in 2004
We'll be in Ireland trying to find the Grant bones. Here is what we know:
David Francis Grant was born c1810 and married Johanna ???
c 1830. Children are: Patrick, c1831, James, c1832, Lawrence,
(my great-grandfather), c1833, Edward, c1834, Bridget, 1835,
William Francis, born 5-7-1836 in Rathpatrick, Snowhill, Kilkenny
Co.
The above from a Rootsweb.com search, posted by clarkebob@cox.net.
We've picked up the families of Lawrence and William Francis in Shakopee, Minnesota,
near Minneapolis. The families lived through many hardships, but members of
the Lawrence Grant line have survived. A family reunion was held 8-14-04 near
Seattle, Washington where many of us reside.
There seems to have been a Co. Clare connection. Grants married into the large
and evidently influential Hehir family. Lawrence Grant married a Co. Clare Keating/King
descendent, Mary Ann King.
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Peter Grant via Genes in Jan 2009
I have very limited data on Stephen Grant but quite a lot on his son, Francis John and subsequent Grants.
My records show Stephen Grant MD was born circa 1760 and practised medicine in Peter Street, Waterford, where his son Francis John was born on 12 February 1787.
Francis served as a soldier at the Cape of Good Hope and in 1805 was commissioned in the Indian Native Infantry of the Honourable East India Company. He arrived in India in 1806, served with distinction and achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He died in August 1843 at Nowgong, aged 56, leaving a widow and 4 sons.
I do not have the date of his marriage to Mary, nee Sorrel, but their youngest son, Frederick Andrew, was born in August 1836, which suggests they married in about 1830.
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