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The Graham Family
Family Motto: Ne Oublie - Do Not
Forget
"I'm damned if I will sail with
you, Sir Graham,
Though I may seem uncivil,
But Graham is Graeme, and Graham
is Grim,
And Grim, sir, is the Devil"
(Old Ballad - taken from
Roger Black's
"The Surnames of Scotland", p.329)
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According to Roger Black's "The Surnames of Scotland",
the name Graham, and its variants Grahame, Graeme and Grim, is one of Anglo-Norman origin, which settled in Scotland in the
early 12th century. The name derives from the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) words graeg-ham, meaning a "grey home",
which is a manor recorded in the Domesday Book. The first Scottish Graham was William de Graham
who accompanied King David I on his return to Scotland from England, later establishing a powerbase in Perthshire,
as well as receiving from the king the lands of Abercorn and Dalkeith. De Graham is first mentioned in a charter dated
1127, and his descendants subsequently found lands in the Scottish borders and the northern English territory
of Cumberland, in the Lake District.
From David Dorward's "Scottish Surnames" we learn
that the family was never a proper Highland clan as such, but rather a very prominent Lowland Scots family that
took on much of the trappings of a Scottish clan in later years. After their prominent role in the Scottish Wars of Independence
the family unjustly lost the earldom of Strathearn, but remained a prominent family for many centuries to come.
Amongst the family's greatest achievements was
that of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, who as a member of Parliament in 1782 successfully fought for the repeal of the
cruel 1747 Act that sought to make it an offence to wear Highland dress, which had been introduced to Scotland in the aftermath
of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion as a punitive measure against the Gaelic speaking Highland population of the country.
The only member of this particular branch of
Calum's and Jamie's Graham ancestors (there are at least two branches) to have been identified so far is of the Perthshire
branch based in the Port of Menteith area, being:
Janet Graham (17?? - ????)
ASSOCIATED NAMES:
Paterson
For more information
on the origins of the Graham 'clan', click on the following link:
Clan Graham
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Janet Graham
1740 approx - ????
Janet Graham was Calum's and Jamie's great great
great great great great great grandmother.
Little is known of Janet Graham at present. All that
is known is that she married James Paterson on 9th January 1761 in the Port of Menteith, Stirlingshire, Scotland, where together
they raised a family.
CHILDREN of JANET GRAHAM
and JAMES PATERSON:
(Unknown) Paterson
c: 4/11/1761
John Paterson
c:
9/12/1763
James Paterson
c:
17/11/1765
Margaret Paterson
c: 18/7/1768 or 15/9/1768
(May have died in infancy)
Agnes Paterson
c:
22 or 23/1/1772
Janet Paterson
c:
23/2/1774
Janet was Calum's and Jamie's great great great
great great great grandmother - see Paterson page.
Walter Paterson
c:
26/11 or 26/12/1776
Margaret Paterson
c: 26/3/1780
Connecting to Calum and Jamie
Janet Graham married James Paterson on 9/1/1761.
Daughter, Janet Paterson, married Joseph Woodroffe
on 20/11/1803.
Daughter, Joan Woodroffe, married William Paton on 4/11/1831.
Son, William Hay Paton, married Janet Roger
on 2/12/1859.
Son, David Hepburn Paton, married Jessie McFarlane on 15/8/1889.
Son, Charles Paton, married
Jane Currie, on 28/9/1934.
Son, Colin Paton, married Charlotte Harper Graham on 30/8/1969.
Son, Christopher
Mark Paton, married Claire Patricia Giles on 24/6/2000.
Sons, Calum Graham Paton and Jamie Christopher Paton.
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