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Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Castle Grant near Grantown on Spey on Clan Grant ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Speyside Highlands. The castle is a Z-plan tower house that dates from the fifteenth century. The lands had been held by the Clan Comyn but passed to the Grants in the fifteenth century and it became their main stronghold. The castle was originally named Freuchie Castle and James Grant of Freuchie supported King James V of Scotland. Although the Grants were Protestants, they joined James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose during the Scottish Civil War in the 1640s. The name of the castle changed from Freuchie Castle to Castle Grant in 1694 when the lands were made into the regality of Grant. Ludovick Grant, the eighth laird, supported the Hanoverians against the Stewarts and fought against the Jacobites in both the Jacobite rising of 1715 and the Jacobite rising of 1745. However Castle Grant was occupied by the Jacobites. In 1787, Robert Burns visited Castle Grant. Castle Grant is allegedly haunted by the ghost of Lady Barbara Grant, daughter of a sixteenth century laird. However her small apparition is said to be sad rather than terrifying. She is said to have died of a broken heart after being imprisoned in a dark closet for falling in love with the wrong man. Clan Grant is a Highland Scottish clan.

The surname Grant was first found in Inverness-shire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Nis, divided between the present day Scottish Council Areas of Highland and Western Isles, and consisting of a large northern mainland area and various island areas off the west coast, the shire was anciently both a Pictish and Norwegian stronghold, where they held a family seat at Strathspey from very early times. Spelling variations of this family name include: Grant, Grantt, Graunt, Grannd (Gaelic) and others.

Robert Grant, a Scottish mariner, was convicted in Edinburgh, Scotland for 14 years, and transported aboard the Dromedary on 11th September 1819, arriving in Tasmania, he was executed in 1824; Alex Grant landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1760; Christopher Grant landed in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1773; Donald Grant landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1773; Peter Grant settled in Boston Massachusetts, America, in 1651; James Grant settled in New England, America, in 1651; Charles Grant landed in Maryland, America, in 1651; John Grant settled in Boston Massachusetts, America, in 1652 with his servants. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.