Scotland

Grant and McKee in Lanarkshire, Scotland

Duncan Grant, born in about 1755 in Scotland, married Barbara Carmichael, born about 1760, in about 1778.

Their son, Alexander Grant, was born in 1791 in Kirknewton and East Calder, Midlothian. He married Christina Pettigrew in 1817, in Shotts, Lanark.

Their son, William Grant, was born in 1819 in Bothwell, Lanark. He married Agnes Pollock, the daughter of Robert Pollock and Elizabeth Pettigrew, in 1840 in Bothwell. In the 1861 and 1881 census William was a railway engine driver.

They had several children. Agnes Elizabeth Grant was born in 1860 in Glasgow. She married James McKee in 1883 in Blythswood, Glasgow. James McKee was born in 1860 in Glasgow. In the 1891 census he was a mercantile clerk, and in 1901 he was an iron merchant’s clerk. James was the son of Henry McKee, born 1835 in Ireland, and Anne Reynolds, born 1837 in Ireland, the daughter of Esther.

Their third child, William Grant Mckee, was born in 1888 in Glasgow. He married Dorothy Miller, born in 1895 in Claydon, Suffolk, in about 1920. Their children were James Erik Grant McKee, Elizabeth “Betty” McKee, and Thulia McKee, born in 1926.

Thulia McKee married Robert Mead in 1951 in Torquay, Devon.

The information about the Grant family was provided by Iain Scott.