3 Celts & Company • "GRANT" Despite Gaelic interpretations, the name is simply from the French "Grand," either 'Big' or 'Eminent,' and the family was known in their original Normandy with the motto 'Stand fast!' Introduced to Scotland by marriage with the Inverness-shire Bissets, Gregory le Grant was Sheriff of that territory before 1250 and laird in Stratherrick, northeast of Loch Ness, whilst his son Lawrence, by marriage to a Comyn heiress, acquired Strathspey lands that thereafter became their home-country. The Glenmoriston branch was a 16th-century offshoot; and they, as indeed most of the clan, Norman in name only, adhered loyally to the Stewarts, though the Grant chiefs always favored the ruling government.
Of General Ulysses Grant, U.S. President 1868-76, it was wagered his 'poker face' could not be tricked into emotion. But when a clansman called the old slogan 'Stand fast, Craigellachie !' (a Speyside crag), the forfeit had to be surrendered, with smiles all round.
Septs: ALLAN, BISSET, BISSETT, BOWIE, BUIE, GILROY, MACALLAN, MACGILROY, MACILROY, MACKERRON, MACKIARAN, PRATT, SUTTIE
"GRANT." Scots Kith and Kin and Illustrated Map Revised Second Edition. Edinburgh, SCOT: Clan House, c.1970. p.57,58. Print.
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