Managers of Patrick Grant of Craskie,
I am contacting you about this profile: https://www.geni.com/people/Patrick-Grant-of-Craskie/60000000410511...
Hello, Peter Grant of New Zealand did some extensive records searching for the Grants of the Craskie area about 5 years ago, there are a few things he found in the CS's. One Patrick Grant Senior of Craskie was indeed the father of Alexander "Og" "the younger" b1710 d1743 and they are found signing documents in the 1730s.
Also it is known from another CS that this Alexander had a "younger brother Patrick" . it is this younger brother patrick of Craskie that is assumed to be the infamous "Black Peter" but rock solid proof is missing.
In another CS their father Patrick Senior of Craskie was stated to be 50 years old in 1721, rendering a birth year of 1671. Nothing signed by him after 1737 as you indicated.
In the literature Isobel is clearly identified as the daughter of John Grant of Craskie, The generational spacing for these two put Isobel perhaps a couple years younger than her husband Pat 7th of GM, which appears to render her father John's age at about the time of the aforementioned Patrick Sr. of Craskie b1671. I suspect this John to be Patrick's younger brother or 1/2 brother as there is some documentation indicating a John of Craskie "twice married". But still, I have no hard evidence for making a claim one way or another, there are a number of other Craskie aligned Grants that may play in this family tree, like Duncan s/o John Grant "the Tutor" "of Craskie and Coneachen".
As you know from the prisoner records there is a John Grant Craskie, "Farmer" b1707 "age 40" when transported in 1747. It is hypothesized that he might also be a s/o John f/o Isobel and that this particular branch of the Craskie family was not in the wadset lineage.
This John Grant Farmer Craskie b1707 is often confused with another prisoner John Roy Grant "wheelwright" from Aberdeen, who was holed up in Craskie "there" post-Culloden, He was released and returned to Aberdeen while John b1707 was transported to Barbados and never returned.
I descend from Donald Grant b1744 Craskie Weaver per KRRNY records and so far the odds on favorite for being father of this guy is perhaps John b1707, but no documentation has been seen to make that connection as far as I know.
There are way to numerous incorrect trees out there from a number of otherwise reputable sources, Father John, Duncan Darby, Alexander Fraser, Evelyn Goulet, Tal MacDonald, Francis Ross MacDonald, Major Alpin, etc. Most appear to be incorrect in one or many aspects (names or generational order) from what little we do know from the existing documentation.
Lots to figure out for sure still and the current Chief of Grant is hesitant to open up the known records and business dealings that exist for this area.
Sincerely,
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