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Note: N20444 Marriage annoucement in The Edinburgh Magazine describes her as daughter of James Grant, Esq; late of the Isle of Man.
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Birth date bef 1752 deduced from her being indicated as oldest child in CC family tree. And described as eldest daughter in ...
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Mentioned in 1801 entail of her uncle Robert Gran: Niece Margaret Grant, spouse of Capt. John Shank of His Majesty’s Navy.
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After his death Benjamin Frobisher’s widow and their only son went to live in England at Barton House, Dawlish, the home of her aunt, the widow of Admiral John Schank.
(Wikipedia re Benjamin Frobisher.)
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How is this James Grant connected?:
Mount Schank, S Australia, was named in December 1800 by Lieutenant (later Captain) James Grant, to honour Captain (later Admiral) John Schank of the Royal Navy. During his exploratory voyage along Australia's south-east coast Grant's wooden vessel, the HMS Lady Nelson, had sliding keels built to a scheme devised by Captain Schank. When Captain Matthew Flinders later sailed and mapped the same coastline, he adopted the names for any features already named by Grant.
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James Grant was born in Scotland in 1772. In 1800 as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy he brought the Lady Nelson to Australia in company with HMS Porpoise. Over the next two years Grant made several voyages of discovery along the New South Wales coastline but is best remembered for his work in the Hunter River area which resulted in the establishment of Newcastle. He died 1833.
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James Grant (1772 – d 11 November 1833, Saint-Servan, France) was a British Royal Navy officer and navigator in the early nineteenth century. He made several voyages to Australia and Tasmania, and was the first to map parts of the Australian coast.
Grant was baptized on 6 September 1772 at Forres, Morayshire, Scotland. He was educated at King's College, Aberdeen, under Dr William Chalmers.
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Captain Grant and Sir William Grant
A large portion of the coast of this colony, Victoria, was discovered in December, 1800, by James Grant, Lieutenant, RN, in command of HM brig " Lady Nelson." One of the capes was named by him Cape Sir William Grant; it is marked on ...
(Notes and Queries. ser.5 v.1 1874 Jan-Jun. Page 50.)
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Captain Grant and Sir William Grant (5th S. i. 50)
I have made inquiries amongst some of the oldest surviving branches of my family as to who this "Captain Grant " was, with the following result: —
“My grandfather," writes a friend who was applied to for information, "Captain John Grant, RN, recollects meeting Captain James Grant, RN, when he (Captain John Grant) was a schoolboy and staying with a relation in Red Lion Square. At that time (about 1804 or 1805) Captain James Grant was staying there, and had his arm tied up from a wound received in action. He was a great friend of Admiral Schank’s, at Dawlish, who always took a liking to any Grant. (The Admiral married Miss Grant, Sir William's only sister.)
"This James Grant was a clever surveyor, and got the 'Lady Nelson,' through Admiral Schank's interest, for the purpose of surveying Botany Bay, as it was then called. After the above-mentioned meeting, my grandfather knew no more about him till the former's return from South America, in or about 1838. when he again met Captain Grant at dinner at a Mr. Cumming's, a great naturalist, in Dawlish.”
(Notes and Queries. ser.5 v.1 1874 Jan-Jun. Page 196.)
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