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GRAHAMs on BACK STREET, HIGH CHURCH, HIGH STREET, Kilmarnock

sheilaholm7  (View posts) Posted: 6 Nov 2002 8:49PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: GRAHAM
Trusting I have found the majority of the family of Robert & Jane PICKEN GRAHAM within the 1841 census of Kilmarnock on these three streets, with the note "on GRAHAM land."

It appears the DAVID, m 1806 to Agnes STEVENSON is a brother to Robert, or he may be an uncle. In the 1851 business directory & census in Paris, Ontario, Canada, a James 30 and John 32, owner of a cooperage. The family members that emigrated to Paris, Ontario, lived in this cooperage and worked there the first years in Ontario.

In 1903, James B. GRAHAM returned to Kilmarnock, visited the business where his father worked (did not state the name) and he walked home and shared coffee at the same house with the same three boys (men) and girl (lady) that he skipped home from church with while he lived in Kilmarnock (b 1834 and emigrated with his parents in 1846).

There was a widow MARY GRAHAM, and sometimes it was spelled Grayham, living on BACK STREET in 1841, aged 65, so we are thinking she was the mother of Robert. We are finding details for EACH family married to the GRAHAM line, while we are NOT finding the GRAHAM family, siblings, etc., to be listed.

Collecting details on the IGI, we have found a marriage for Robert to Jane PICKEN on 1 FEB 1819. In the record Robert GRAHAM is spelled GRIM.

Jane is the daughter of Thomas (b 1755?) and Agnes ANDREW (b 1755?) m est 1775-6, with children:
John 1777 ? m Elizabeth Hendry 1814
Thomas 1799 ? m Jean Paton 1814
Andrew 1781 died as a baby
Twins: Elizabeth 1783 possibly married; three options needing research
Rachel 1783 not a listing for a marriage
Janet 1790 Died as a baby
Janet 1791 ? m Wm Wilson
Andrew 1794 Two marriage options; needing more research
Margaret 1796 Three marriage options; needing more research
Jean 1798...and she married Robert GRAHAM, we believe b 1797, m 1819.
Marriage 1 FEB 1819, with record stating Robert GRIM!

Their children:
Euphemia b 1820, with Thomas STEVENSON (m 24 JAN 1840)
Looking for parents of Thomas, stated to have been orphaned as a boy
Four brothers, emigrated to Ontario as of 1851
A sister was still living in Glasgow, when a brother died in 1901
Adopted two MARTIN children, David & Rebecca
Euphemia & Thomas emigrated to Paris, Ontario & supposedly lived in
the cooperage owned by her brother - however, it must have been
Robert's brother JOHN, and a brother, JAMES was also listed as a
COOPER, there. The 1851 business directory has provided a few extra
details, and this is being researched.
a daughter
a son (as our James was #9 in 1834)
Jean 1823? We are looking for her life/marriage details
Joseph 1825? We are looking for his life/marriage details
Robert 1826? We are looking for his life/marriage details
These three were listed as 15 in 1841 census, so they were 15-19
Emigrated in 1846 with Robert & Jane - not sure about the three older siblings
Thomas 1829? listed as 12 Married 1866 to Margaret KAY in BRANT
Daughter of David KAY and Margaret PRINGLE
Lived in Paris, BRANT, Ontario; three sons: William John, Thomas, Robert,
John H 1831 listed as 10 Married Rachel Miller 1868 in BRANT
Daughter of John Miller & Janet ____
James B. b 9 NOV 1834 (our line) listed as 7 Married Jane LLOYD
Daughter of Wm & Hannah LLOYD, natives of England, Jane b England
Marriage in Kent, Howard, Ontario, where LLOYD's resided; Lived and
started to raise the first seven in Warwick Village, Lambton, Ontario
1874 moved to IOWA, when Jane was 6 mo. pregnant with #8, and Jane
died due to complications with child birth five months after #9 was b
Jennie cared for Euphemia in Ontario until death, JUN 1901 (article in Kilmarnock paper), m JUL 1901 to Wm A McKenzie, in Wm GRAHAM home
Adelaide did not marry
Robert Edward m Hattie Swender (our line), Clarence James, Mamey, Ernest & Eunice
Euphemia did not mary
Annie married Wm Bedford; then Cord Juergans
Mary did not marry
Albert Henry did not marry
Arthur James married Mamie Rawhauser, four children
Ida married, div., and raised two brothers of ex-husband
Mary (Not in the census) b 1841 Married James McGREGOR 1866 in BRANT
Son of Robert McGREGOR & Isabella ___________ died young, b with
Euphemia & STEVENSONs in Lucknow, Ontario

Trusting the 1700 and 1800 details about this family are not being researched as deeply, is because many remained 'in the area'.

Can anyone provide previous history details?

Sheila Holm
GRAHAM line

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