The widow of the third Baron de
Longueil Charles Jacques LaMoine gave her hand in marriage at Montreal,.
on the 11th September, 1770, to the Hon. William Grant, Receiver General
of the Province, while on the 7th May, 1781, Capt. David Alexander Grant,
a nephew of the Hon.
W. Grant, led to the altar her
daughter, who subsequently assumed the title of Baroness de Longuenil;
Charles Colmore Grant, a lineal descendant, now inherits the Baronial
title in Canada by warrant of H. M. Queen Victoria, published in the
London Gazette, * of 7th Dec. 1880.
Later on, we find the haughty Scotch
family of Lennox t connected by marriage with the proud and warlike family
of LaCorne de St. Luc.
It furnishes quite a curious study
to follow the chain of events, and to see how antipathies of race fade
away before the harmonizing influence of Hymen. Scotch as well as English
officers, of Montreal and Quebec, are united to the best French blood in
the colony: thus we have such noted names as DeGaspé, Duchesnay, de St.
Ours, DeSalaberry, Panet, LeMoine, de Longueuil, de Montenach, Coursol,
Sicotte, Duval, Chauveau, changing to Stuart, Fraser, Campbell, Hatt,
Herbert, McPherson,
* This graceful recognition of the
most distinguished French house in Canada is republished under authority
of the Dominion Government in the Canada Gazette, of 22nd January
1881, as follows:
Extract from the London Gazette of
the 7th day of December, 1880.
DOWNING STREET,
December 4, 1880.
"The Queen has been graciously
pleased to recognize the claim of Charles Colmore Grant, Esq., to the
title of Baron de Longueuil, in the Province of Quebec, Canada.
This title was conferred upon his
ancestor, Charles le Moine: by Letters Patent of Nobility, signed by King
Louis XIV, in the year 1700."
t
Miss M. Lennox was a daughter of Major the Earl of Lennox, son of the Duke
of Richmond and Aubigny, and of Mademoiselle Marguerite Lacorne de Chapt
de St. Luc—a family equally distinguished on Canadian battle fields and
among the French noblemen. After the death of Earl Lennox his widow
married Le Commandant Jacques Viger, the Montreal antiquarian. A detailed
obituary notice of Madame Viger appeared in the Montreal "Minerve."
