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Jessy Grant

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

One of the heirs of Donald Grant of Amity Hall.

The Jessie Grant, female, born St Thomas-in-the-East, Jamaica, living at Mayfield Cottage, Forres, Scotland, in the census of 1851, age 61, occupation annuitant was almost certainly one of the daughters of George Grant of Burdyards and Elizabeth McDermott, a free woman of colour, sent to Scotland to live with their father by 1800.


Sources

1851 census online; https://www.highlifehighland.com/highland-archive-centre/elizabeth-mcdermott-letter/" [accessed 26/11/2019].

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1832 [EA] - → Legatee
Amity Hall [1] [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Relationships (1)

Jessy Grant
Legatee → Testator
Donald Grant of Amity Hall
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Addresses (1)

Mayfield Cottage, Forres, Moray, North-east Scotland, Scotland
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