Born [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
James Grant WS
— married
27 Jul 1803 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Descendants 
Mother of
Patrick Grant WS and William Grant
Died
at age 87
[location unknown]
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Biography
Nelly or Helen Shearer, daughter of Lieutenant Charles Shearer, married James Grant on 22 Jul 1803 in Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Scotland.[1]
Her tomb in Invermoriston Burial Grounds, the family graveyard of the Grants of Glenmoriston, reads:
- The tomb
- of
- James Grant of Burnhall
- Writer to the Signet
- Second son of Patrick Grant
- of Glenmoriston
- by Henrietta daughter of
- James Grant of Rothiemurchus
- Died 15 June 1834 aged 66 years
- Helen Shearer, his wife
- Born 1 June 1776
- Died 27 February 1864[2]
Sources
- ↑ "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYMT-JFV : 11 February 2020), James Grant, 1803
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #179497754
- P J Anderson, Major Alpin's ancestors and descendants (Aberdeen: 1904), p 17; digital images, https://archive.org/details/majoralpinsance00ande
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