Scottish Clans: The story behind Clan Grant

Every weekend, Carl MacDougall, will tell the story of one of Scotland's famous Clans. This weekend, we take a look at Clan Grant.
Read more about Scottish Clans on the Scotland Now website here: www.scotlandnow...

[@harrysecombegroupie]

Another Grant here. Hello all the way from Australia, clansfolk!

[@millig8251]

I’m also from grant clan, from Australia too, interesting what I could find on the internet about this

[@shaboohshoobah714]

Me too! Well, I'm a Russell, but my great grandmother was a proud Grant.

[@fuubaa6]

Grant from New Zealand here bro, wearing bear feet, sorry for my spelling to many ports tonight! Welcome all grants

[@thefrontline1]

GRANT FROM LOS ANGELES AND PROUD. STAND FAST ALL!

[@ThyGeekGoddessMuze]

We ended up in the Colonies and Nova Scotia, Canada and the old west. US Grant was Dad's cousin and he recruited my folks with Bass Reeves, the real Lone Ranger. Lovecraft had quite a time with our family history.

[@xDarkPx]

Grant here. Born and raised in Savannah, Georgia.

[@GrantCX]

Mahmoud Grant here from Egypt! My great grandfather was James Grant, son of Charles Grant & Emma Richardson, he moved to Egypt in the mid 1800’s

[@TheKieshaKiesha]

Im a Grant in Canada. Hello fellow clansman, god bless! all the best, stand fast

[@pelley015]

Thank you for posting this .My wife's ancestors from the grant family lived in this castle just one of many Scottish highland clans from my wife's family tree.So beautiful, we hope to visit all the castles of her ancestors.Who would have thought tracing one's family tree would unfold such famous historical people,knights,Barons,Royalty, just mind blowing.

[@jimtaylor4103]

Hi Everyone, One of my GG Grandfathers was a Erastus Grant, descended from Peter Grant who was sold into the New England colonies around 1650. He was at the battle of Dunbar, losing to Cromwell, and eventually ended up in Berwick Maine running a lumber mill. The family flourished in Maine for many years, with lots of descendants. Awesome to see this video and all the Clan Grant posters...

[@darleneironmonger9198]

My 6th great grand father,Alexander Grant, lived in this castle. He was sent to Baltimore,Maryland.

[@sibergirl]

My grandmother was a Grant from Southampton, NY. She had a picture of the Clan Grant coat of arms hanging in the front hall of her house. ‘Stand Fast’! 😊 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@fuubaa6]

Sibergirl I'm from New Zealand and a grant! 'Stand fast to any stranger, welcome to a friend'

[@MLK-267]

Do you have photo

[@Hazmatchris13]

Hello from a Grant in Illinois

[@thefrontline1]

LA here

[@tomknuppel1502]

me too!

[@AwesomeSauce696969]

Hello to my fellow Grants from Cape Breton, the Celtic Heart of North America... STAND FAST

[@TheKieshaKiesha]

aye stand fast brother. Im a grant in Canada

[@007sweetkitten]

Hello from New Zealand, my name is Tina Aitken, my papa's mothers line of Grants from Scotland (1840s) William John Grant & James Grant of Glenmoriston, Inverness-Shire, Scotland. Brothers who ventured to New Zealand in the 1840s their great great Grandfather was Major Alexander grant his father was John Grant 6th of Glenmoriston & his was John - Iain D'onn Grant 5th of Glenmoriston. We can track 30 generations back to Hacken & Harald(Son/Father) Grandt & Tora Mosterton 0850. So Kia Ora from Aotearoa New Zealand!

[@petemartin4300]

My Ma is a Grant My Grandfather (may he rest in peace) was Sidney Grant he faught in WW2 and came back to South Africa. He was farmer too

[@ThyGeekGoddessMuze]

42! That number keeps popping up. Deep Thought cracked me up. I’m not sure which side we were on then, but I was definitely born Jacobite! Born on Father’s Day with two black eyes. My sister had one from her battle, but I apparently went through a war! There’s no vaguely Scottish on grandmother’s side, and Grants aren’t my only Highlanders. Great story! This is how we got to the American Revolution. We were not unaffected.

[@legacyleader39]

Austin Grant here. Born in Upstate NY and now in Florida. Clan Grant Stand Fast!

[@SimBoots]

Just out of curiosity, any relation to a Dr. Austin Brawley Grant from NY, born in SC?

[@sandrakisch3600]

Thankyou for this info. My late mother in law was a Grant from Abernethy.

[@jai-jaigrant-said4662]

Another clansman here!! Hello from London

[@TheJack6374]

Im a Australian, also in the grant clan!! middle name william and so is my father and grandfather love to know more on the history.

[@Pastorlogangrant]

Grant here from North Carolina United States

[@richardgrant5105]

Would suggest any Grants interested might contact Clan Grant Society ! Stand Fast !!

[@thefrontline1]

How do I join. Stand fast

[@spencergrant4906]

I've recently started working with a cousin of mine on where exactly we fit into the Grant Clan. She's been working on it for years but I've just really gotten involved. Waiting on my DNA test to come back, hopefully it will help narrow down everything. We know that we are Scottish just don't want to put to much information on a public page like this.

[@dimitribelicoff5325]

My ancestor is Cuthbert Grant , i had all my genealogy done and it is a registered document. I live in Canada and CUTHBERT GRANT has helped the Native people of Canada greatly. Iam so proud of my ancestors of Scotland and May HEAVENLY FATHER BLESS US ALL. Amen

[@YahshuaWinz]

I like when he said Alexander Grant escaped from Barbados’s and returned to his home land. My name is also Alexander Grant

[@TGrant1963]

Love my clan history!! Stand Fast!!

[@kmma1094]

Yer nae a true grant, true grants didnae wheest aff tae America when the going got tough. We tuffed it oot In the glen back then you could murder a land stealing Englishman wae oot a peep fae the law. Back in the 50s they clamped doon oan it. If yer a true clans man then come back and help claim the land wae the rest of us but until then hawd yer tongue and leave the warriors wae the big baws tae the name missy

[@anecologistspeaks6422]

Great video, my family are Grants & I never knew this.

[@babbelbekkie9551]

My grandfather ( Peter Grant Bremner) is from Scotland. He used to live in Fyvie castle. He came to South Africa and met my grandmother Veronica. He visited a her a few times before she went to scotland with him to see his homeland and take care of my Great Grandmother. They eventually left Scotland and came back to south africa after my great grandmother died. They had my father and he was an uncultured Scot, so when I was born he didnt know that the girls in the family could also take the clan name so I was just named without it. Years later before my brother was born my grandfather told him that he girls in family could also take the clan name. When my brother was named he received the clan name. Alexander grant Peter Bremner. I feel without the clan name I am not entitled to say I am part of the Grant clan. But this is the little that I know about my Scottish history as my grandfather died and I have not been able to see my grandmother. I ask my mother often about my dad's side of the family bit she has little to no information💔❣

[@shannonthompson721]

Ludovic Grant was my husband’s ancestor. He was exiled to new world around 1719 and married a Cherokee woman Eughiootie around 1726. That is all we know

[@Trismaog]

Love to know where I come from amazing video

[@BecomingMorose]

Grant here in Texas! ❤ I’m a Grant through my Dad and I’m super proud of my heritage- always wanting to learn more.

[@BecomingMorose]

Are you all my family members somehow?…. 😂

[@TheKieshaKiesha]

fellow grant in Ont Canada

[@jessegrant21]

My father's side is grant and my mother's side is murray. Born in Johannesburg, SA 🇿🇦

[@dinellejeneve6217]

I’m a Jamaican 🇯🇲 woman born and raised in 🇨🇦. My 8th Grandfather was Cuthbert James Grant a prominent Métis leader of the early 19th century. That’s on my dads side 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on my moms side my 8,9 or 10th grandfather I’m not sure is Samuel Williams Haughton of Jamaica his wife’s name was Margaret Bonella (Scottish)

[@joanneadahk124]

Grant from Kansas, USA. Stand fast!

[@abbys6437]

Eek I'm a Grant from MT

[@sumguyonacid1927]

Grant here! Born in Texas

[@samuelgrant8208]

I’m also I grant my great grandfather was Angus grant

[@ikbenrobby]

Holy shit this is my family

[@elawichrowska]

Grant from Wales :)

[@davidmacgregor5193]

Clan Grant and Clan Gregor are kinsfolk, both are descendants of King Kenneth I.

[@daibhidhjudah1687]

MacAulay Pratt Clann Grant here, Grandmother a Grant, Grandfather MacAulay, not far away from Grant castle, I'm only realizing who I am, big up the Gregor/MacGregor, Siol Alpin, undoubtably the some of the first Highland Scot Clanns, the Scottus Nobilis, Tribe of Judah

[@Inkognito-ts4to]

I'm probably a Gregor

[@ItsJustMorris]

David , who knows who is descended from Kenneth MacAlpin.... Clan Grant, Clan Gregor and the rest of the 'Siol Alpin' relate back to Olav (Amhlaim) Hemingsson , Lord of Freuchie, Thane of Glenchearnach www.clangrant.org/index.aspx?pid=23

[@amygrant49]

Saying Hello From CA, USA Grant Family Decedent by blood ..

[@thefrontline1]

Do you go to the festival near LA? Stand fast

[@ThyGeekGoddessMuze]

8th Great Uncle was listed as "Samuel Grant" and I totally lunched it. until just about now.

[@richardgrant7055]

Can't understand your language .........

[@ThyGeekGoddessMuze]

@@richardgrant7055 to lunch = to forget . I’m currently focused on the Hamilton years through the migration to the Midwest with US Grant, Bass Reeves and the First World’s Fair. I like some of the songs from “Hamilton”. Alexander wasn’t alone at Valley Forge, there were about 20 of them mustered. Anyway, I’ve made a lot of progress since then

[@franktucker1969]

The Jacobite history is rather abbreviated in this narrative. My seventh great grandfather, Ludovic Grant, was captured in 1715 Jacobite Uprising and exiled in 1716 to the Carolina colonies as an indentured servant. He was said to have been a son of the clan laird. Some of his cousins were sent to Barbados. I believe there was an earlier Jacobite Uprising, not sure if memory serves me correctly. I have found no record as to who he was indentured to but after he was released from servitude he was liscenced to trade with the Cherokee and records indicate he was close to Gov. James Glen who governed the Carolina colonies at the time. There is a collection of correspondence between the two in the North Carolina State Archives. He acted somewhat as a liason as well as legal authority for the governer at times. He kept him apprised of affairs in the Cherokee Nation. He was said to be well liked and trusted by whites as well as the indigenous people. In 1727 he married a chiefs daughter, Elizabeth "Eu-ghi-oo-tee" Tassel Carpenter and spent the rest of his life as an adopted Cherokee. It is amazing how much culture and customs were similar between the Highland Scots and the Cherokee. Both had a clan structure and similar lifestyle in many ways. A few years back some of the descedants Ludovic and Elizabeth were invited by the Grants in Scotland to attend the annual clan gathering and celebration. They were allowed to carry banners and March at the head of the procession at opening of the event. I believe visitors have attended since then. I would love to be able to attend myself but I don't know that I ever will. Just a dream. Anyway, just wanted to throw my bit of family lore out there. By the way, it is said us registered Cherokee Citizens who descend from this couple account for one-fourth to one-half of the tribal count, about 300,000 I believe. 75,000 to 150,000 ScotoCherokee ( the official academic term for us disenfranchised Scots). We are actually a subject of academic study. Don't really mean to complain about this video, just wanted to expand a little for anyone unfamiliar with the history. I'm far from an expert but I have been researching for several years since retirement have ample time. I'm just delighted whenever I encounter family history being reported. Between the Clan Grant my Cherokee history which I am fortunate that it is much documented I have accuired an amazing family history. I actually knew very little until that start a few years ago. Good to engage cousins, best to you all!

[@Weasel-vp8zk]

Craigellachie! Glenmoriston Grant here.

[@johngrant5649]

Grant here as well.

[@jessicavandervelde3067]

Hey cus

[@craiggrant849]

Would love to be able to trace my lineage back that far!!

[@richardgrant5255]

Grant from New York!

[@franktucker1969]

A fact I saw on PBS show about the early Florida Colonies a few months ago was the first Governor appointment by England after Spain relinquished the Florida Colonies ( originally there were two, East and West ). Shortly before the American Revolution, Spain burdened by years of conflicts with Nations on their side of the Atlantic as well as contesting with England over possession of Florida and the American Colonial unrest on the horizon decided to let England have it and just go home and focus on that front. The man appointed as the first Governor after Spanish control was described as General James Grant of the Glenmorriston Clan of Scotland. That's our people cousins. I have a number of interesting historical info, some of it documented, some speculative such as our Sinclair ( St. Clair ) cousins, Knights Templar, Henry Sinclair, Oak Island, Nova Scotia, a lot of wild stuff. Some of it is unlikely to ever be provable but a lot of stories long considered just myth and legend have found serious support among Academia in the last few decades so can ever say never. I admit I am sometimes open just a bit to the mysterious, supernatural side of human cognition and do enjoy entertaining such thoughts from time to time. Such as my birth October, Friday 13th and our possible ties to the Knights Templar. That was the date the order was accused as heretics and the leaders we're arrested to be tortured and eventually burned at the stake with the order declared to be disbanded. I know that's silly to there is any correlation between my birth and that event but it amuses me so I'm.going to do it anyway. I'm a strong believer in scientific evidence and reason but it all gets too serious and self-righteous if you don't interject a little whimsy and nonsense into your beliefs.

[@grant1237]

Thats my can also!!

[@thefrontline1]

STAND FAST MATE

[@millig8251]

STAND FAST!! GRANT FROM THE AUS

[@garyboylan7720]

My grandfather was Harold Grant...no male heirs to carry the name forward after that! Hello from Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦!

[@emmagrant9846]

my grandad is a Harold Grant too !

[@scotiaboy]

Were all probably related. I'm from Nova Scotia as well.

[@thefrontline1]

Greetings from LA stand fast

[@jessicavandervelde3067]

Interesting, never got to know my grandparents and we honestly dont have information about them, but we are from Nova Scotia as well! We relocated to Ontario in the 50s

[@Ted_Swayinghill]

Went to play drums for a show in Edinburgh and Glasgow never knew my last name was Scottish. Gotta get some genealogy tests done! Eddie “Teddy” Grant Jr Baltimore,MD USA

[@richardgrant7055]

I wouldn't publicise your ignorance..........

[@Ted_Swayinghill]

@@richardgrant7055 And I wouldn’t PUBLICIZE your pettiness yet here we are, Dick. 🤡

[@shaboohshoobah714]

I'm an Australian with Grant ancestry from the Isle of Skye. Anyone else?

[@franktucker1969]

I did some dna testing a few years ago for genealogical purposes which indicated several close matches at the Isle of Skye. We may be from a fairly closely connected branch of the Clan.

[@XxHMGrantxX]

Interesting

[@andinodelaisla]

Grant greetings from Florida! My 9th great grandfather was Laird Ludovic Grant, VIII Laird of Freuchie and 1st of Grant. We descended from his son David. Anyone from that line?

[@gigrant74]

you should do a DNA test. there's a great DNA Project for Grants at Family Tree DNA and several of your distant cousins have tested there. your kit could help the research the admins are doing over there.

[@franktucker1969]

I believe the Laird you refer to would be the grandfather of my Ludovic Grant who was exiled here to the American Colonies in 1716 after capture in 1715 Jacobite Rebellion. Good to meet you cousin.

[@thefrontline1]

greg grant I believe I am from that line

[@edwardlewis3313]

I am also the 9 generation on my mother's side. My grand Mother Mayne name was Clara Grant her father is a direct ascendant to Ulysses s Grant. Nice to meet all of you. I also have the family Bible of the Grants . The family does and always will have family reunion once a year . Well they did when the older grants were with us. They also would make sure every real grant were accounting for in the family tree. I see those day's are long passed. Again thank you and it is very nice to chat with clan Grant!!!

[@kayelacant7790]

A Grant here. In Texas.

[@kieransim711]

Any grant here from the monymusk side Aberdeenshire?

[@missy3941]

Alexander Frederick Grant 4th Laird of Sheuglie 1689-1749 BIRTH 1689 • Sheuglie, Urquhart, Glenmoriston, Inverness, Scotland DEATH 29 JULY 1749 • Tilbury Fort, London, England 8th great-grandfather, just thought I’d share my story and how I came to find I’m descended from the Grants! Alexander had a son named Gregory, who had a daughter named Lily (Lilias) Grant and then the surname changed to Forsyth for the next generation. I am a Cameron and I’m overwhelmed to discover I’m originally a Grant!

[@missy3941]

Forgot to mention I’m in Scotland currently, close to where my ancestors were born.

[@tehanu3]

What about the clan MacInnes? For the family named MacMaster?

[@granty4955]

👌🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👌🏻

[@jessicavandervelde3067]

That's my clan haha

[@Inkognito-ts4to]

I'm not sure what Clan I'm from but I am noble by blood

[@thefrontline1]

Stand fast my friend

[@Inkognito-ts4to]

Don't know if I'm Clan Grant or another Clan but I am noble by blood

[@cianfawcett2144]

I'm a Grant here

[@dimitribelicoff5325]

My ancestor is CUTHBERT GRANT AND I SOOO GLAD TO SEE MORE GRANTS ON HERE. THAT MAKES ME FEEL BETTER KNOWING IAM NOT ALONE.

[@freenamorris7785]

Craig Elachie!

[@robertlewsen9912]

This is Urquhart Castle, my wife's ancestor, {?} Alexander or William Grant died here in 1403 or 1503. My ancestor, Alexander Forbes or William died there in 1503 or 1403 defending the castle, not a profitable line of work. Bob (Robert Forbes Lewsen)

[@tomknuppel1502]

My family enters with my 11th GGF

[@jacobgrant1690]

Hello grants

[@thefrontline1]

We have the same name m8

[@ItsJustMorris]

1,1000 Grant men supported the Jacobites. The chief stayed home in London and kept his head down.

[@omgicons1104]

My last name is Grant

[@Gregorach]

Siol Alpin

[@scotiaboy]

Stand Fast ✊ #NovaScotia

[@thefrontline1]

Greetings from Los Angeles. Stand fast m8

[@kellyjelly4961]

No lie the grant clan is my blood

[@pipergrant7903]

GRANT CLANNNNN

[@kellyjelly4961]

On my grandmas side

[@edwardlewis3313]

First off it is a very sad day for me. What is next the mops of people going to drag him from his tome family. Time to wake up there going after the true patriot of this family!!!

[@richardgrant7055]

What is this incoherent babble .....?