Connecting Grants and friends of Clan Grant across Australia.
All people with the surname of Grant belong to the Clan Grant.
The Clan Grant Society (Australia) has an aim to cultivate a spirit of friendship amongst the Clan and to help keep them in touch with one another within Australia and across the World.
The Clan Grant Society (Australia) brings us together in the ties of appreciating, exploring and embracing our common ancestry.
The Story of Clan Grant
The surname Grant has a long and fascinating history in Scotland, although exactly where our ancestors came from remains a subject of debate.
Over the centuries, historians and genealogists have proposed more than ten different theories about the origins of the Grant family. These written histories, together with centuries of oral tradition passed down by the Seannachies — the traditional storytellers of Scotland — have created a rich and sometimes complex Grant story.
In recent decades, DNA research has added an exciting new chapter to this story. Since 2007, genetic evidence has provided support for the long-held tradition that the Grants have Viking ancestry, tracing our lineage back to Guthrum, born around 810 AD in Scandinavia and later King of East Anglia.
For many years, the most commonly published histories suggested a Norman origin for the Grants. This theory is now being questioned as new historical and genetic evidence emerges.
What we do know is that the precise date when the Grants first settled in Scotland (Alba/Dal Riata) cannot yet be established with certainty. There exists however incontestable proof from all histories and records that Grants were a powerful family, and have made a considerable contribution in Scotland since 1057.
Our story is ancient, evolving and still being discovered, and it belongs to all of us who carry the Grant name.
