Cuthbert James Grant Sr (1752 - 1799)

Born 1752 in Cromdale, Strathspey, Inverness-Shire, Scotland

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Died 1799 at about age 47 in Kaministiquia, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

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Cuthbert was a fur trader.

This profile is part of the Grant Name Study.

Cuthbert Grant Sr is a member of Clan Grant.

Cuthbert Grant Sr migrated from Scotland, UK to Canada.

Biography of Cuthbert GRANT

• Father David Grant b: ABT 22 SEP 1715
• Mother Margaret GRANT

• Marriage 1 Margaret AH-DICK SONGAB b: BET 1770 AND 1780 in Northwest Territory, Canada.Married: BET 1802 AND 1805

• Children
• Josephte GRANT b: ABT 1790
• Marguerite GRANT b: ABT 1790
• Marie GRANT b: BET 1790 AND 1806
• Cuthbert GRANT b: 1793 in Fort Tremblante
• Marie GRANT b: ABT 1796 in Northwest Territory, Canada
• Suzanne GRANT b: ABT 1805
• Jean-Baptiste GRANT b: ABT 1807

• Cuthbert Senior GRANT b: Abt. 1750 in Cromdate, Strathepey, Inverness, Scotland d: 1799 in Kaministiquie, Northwest Territories (ThunderBay, Ontario area)

• Cuthbert GRANT elder, partner of Northwest Fur Company , Born: About 1753 Marriage: Unknown. Died: 1799

• In the years 1785/1786 (I)-Cuthbbert Grant, Sr. d-1799 and Joseph Preux built a fort on the north shore of Lake Athabasca.

• W.S. Wallace (ed), Documents relating to the North West Company (Toronto 1934) 62-6
• I cannot resist the temptation of quoting from a letter of Miss Evelyn Grant: "Robert Grant of the North West Company was my grandfather....I have a copy of the marriage certificate of his parents, who were David Grant, only son of Donald Grant of Easter Lethendry, and Margaret, third daughter of Robert Grant of Wester Lethendry---they were married in 1749. These two Lethendrys are about a mile apart just above the village of Cromdale in Strathspey...I am the last of his descendants, and indeed of the whole Lethendy family. His younger brother Cuthbert was also in Canada. He had no brother Charles..it seems probable that he[Charles Grant] and my grandfather were friends out there and......connected through the Glenbeg connection....Glenbeg is near Grantown, a most lovely little glen, but there is nothing there now but a modern farmhouse---though a group of very old hardwood trees indicate where the old home must have been--as in those parts trees only grew around houses. I do not know if there are any descendents of the Glenbeg family left.

Sources

• Ryk Brown, The Cuthbert Family of Castlehill, Inverness, Scotland (archival and possibly inaccurate; includes no sources; author recommends visiting Ryk Brown, Genealogist or The Stewarts of Balquhidder Research Group (but neither of these two newer web sites include any information about Cuthbert Grant).

• CUTHBERT GRANT (1751-1799) MARGARET UTINAWASIS, Red River Ancestry; (Last Updated: May 07, 2014)

• James Grant, The Grants of Clann Chiaran, undated, unpaginated, unsourced PDF.

• Margaret L., James Cuthbert, marinalaska - LeVeille (LaVallie)/Dustan (Dustin) family tree (worldconnect.rootsweb)

• Cuthbert Grant, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. IV (1771-1800)

• Gail Morin, Metis Families, A Genealogical Compendium, Quinton Publications, Pawtucket, Rhode Island 1996; v2-1264, v2-760, v2-936, v1-346, v2-954, 784, v2-760; Page: v1-467

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to William Arbuthnot for starting this profile.

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• This person was created through the import of 104-B.ged on 12 September 2010 by William Arbuthnot.