Talk:Dalvey, Elgin

No it didn't. It's taken from the name of the baronetcy. See "Citizens of the World" by David Hancock (1995) p 50 and others, passim, which indicates that Dalvey originally had been a Grant holding in Strathspey, bought by Patrick Grant, father of Sir Alexander Grant, bart, in 1701, and sold in 1722. Patrick's son, Alexander Grant, having made a fortune out of Jamaica trade and planting, and established himself in the City, bought the estate near Forres, currently known as Dalvey, but then known as Grangehill, from its then lairds, the Dunbars of Grangehill, in 1749, revived an ancestral (1688) Nova Scotia baronetcy to which his father had a paper claim, and established him in the new holding, which he RENAMED after the original Strathspey location, shortly before the old man died. Grant then inherited the title, which passed in due course to Sir Alexander Cray Grant, MP (q.v).90.199.234.138 (talk) 12:24, 27 February 2016 (UTC)