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Thanks Liz for all that info - it will take me a while to take it all in.
Apparently it is not at all easy to get a copy of a Canadian marriage certificate - the 100 year rule etc,etc - so someone looked it up for me (but don't know how). There were no parent's names and Isabella Falconer Grant was given as a witness. So I presumed that she was a cousin of Johanna and that their fathers were brothers but it looks as if this may not be corrrect.
I have found a birth for Henry Falconer Grant On Free BMD in March 1851 in Clifton but have not found a birth for Charles A Grant, only a birth for Charles William in 1854 in Clifton.
So not quite sure where to go next as it is the Anderson Grant family I am really interested in, but will check out Lady Isabella on line.
Thanks again for all that information which I will go through very carefully.
Jean
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Jean, are you still there? I found a Johanna Anderson Grant's birth in Lanark in 1899. Her parents were William, an oil mill machinist, and Johanna nee McInnes. They were married March 29 1895 in Milton Glasgow.
I can't find anything to connect her to your family definitely but it is a huge coincidence that they also emigrated to Quebec.
Anyway here are the records for the family.
1901 Scotland Census
about Johnna Andrson Grant
Name: Johnna Andrson Grant
Age: 1
Estimated birth year: abt 1900
Relationship: Daur (Daughter)
Father's name: William Grant
Mother's name: Johanna Grant
Gender: Female
Where born: Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Registration Number: 644/8
Registration district: Milton
Civil Parish: Glasgow St George in The Fields
County: Lanarkshire
Address: 55 Cedar St
ED: 28
Household schedule number: 145
Line: 19
Roll: CSSCT1901_294
Household Members:
Name Age
William Grant 31 St Giles, Edinburghshire, storeman
Johanna Grant 27 Glasgow, Lanarkshire
William Grant 5 Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Johnna Andrson Grant 1
Passenger lists leaving UK 1890-1960
Name: Johanna GRANT
Date of departure: 25 April 1913
Port of departure: Glasgow
Destination port: Quebec
Destination country: Canada
Date of Birth: 1900 (calculated from age)
Age: 13
Marital Status:
Sex: Female
Occupation: Scholar
Notes:
Passenger recorded on: Page 14 of 36
The following people with the same last name travelled on this voyage: -
Archd GRANT 11 Months
Bernard GRANT 3
Isabella GRANT 10
Mrs Johanna GRANT 37
Marjory GRANT 6
Peter GRANT 8
Wm GRANT 17 laborer
Ship: SATURNIA
Official Number: 129489
Master's name: David Taylor
Steamship Line: Donaldson
Where bound: Montreal, Canada
Square feet: 33585
Registered tonnage: 5494
Passengers on voyage: 1221
Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918
about William Grant
Name: William Grant, oil miller of 555 Marquette St, Montreal
Residence: Montred, Quebec
Birth Date: 24 Feb 1872
Birth Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Relative: Mrs Gonnanna M Grant
Relationship: Wife
Regiment Number: 228884
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Sister Isabella's marriage. This one names the parents as William Grant and Johanna McInnes and has Peter, Marjorie, Mrs William Grant and William as witnesses.
Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967
about Isabella Salem Grant
Name: Isabella Salem Grant
Spouse: James Mclean of Detroit, Michigan. Son of Jonathan McLean and wife, Jean Brown.
Event Year: 1925
Event: Mariage (Marriage)
Religion: Presbyterian
Place of Worship or Institution: Montréal (Presbyterian Fairmount Taylor)
Province: Québec
Married at the same Place of Worship that Johanna was.
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Hooray Jean, I think I've finally cracked it. I looked at the birth of an Isabella Salem Grant in Scotland but could not find one. Salem is definitely not a Scottish name, and it was confusing me, but I did find one for Isabella Falconer Grant. Born Cedar Street (same as Johanna and same as the 1901 census) 3 June 1902 to William Grant, oil mill machinist and Johanna nee McInnes.
So it was Johanna's younger sister, not cousin, who was witness at her wedding.
Looking at the church records For Isabella's wedding, Salem should definitely read Falconer.
Liz
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Thanks again Liz for all your hard work - you certainly seem to have solved the problem. I never thought of the witness being her younger sister.
It is rather strange that there seems to be two families with the middle name Falconer - Henry Falconer Grant and Isabella Falconer Grant and they both emigrated to Canada. I suppose they must be connected somewhere down the line.
Also I wonder where the name Anderson came from as the mother's maiden name is McInnes and often the maiden name is given as a middle name.
I assume you got most of your information from Ancestry which is something I have never signed up for. Anyway it is very good of you to look things up for me - thanks again.
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