3 Celts & Company • "GRAHAM" William de Graham, perhaps a native Scot, was granted by David I the Lothian lands of Abercorn and Dalkeith. His great-grandson Henry, marrying the Eskdale heiress of Avenel, established a contingent on the west Border, though the direct line died out there. The Montrose branch sprang from a different grandson of William, Sir David de Graham, who settled in Angus under William the Lion. His eldest son acquired by marriage the Strathern district that gave name to the Menteith branch. This is unconnected with Wallace's supposed betrayer, who at least did sign the 1320 Declaration of Independence, besides three Grahams.
The 'Gallant Grahams' often enter Scottish history: most notably in the 17th century, when 'the Great Marquis' (Montrose) and 'Bonnie Dundee,' forty years apart, each led valorously and met death in the royalist cause.
Septs of Montrose: BONAR, BONNAR, GRAHAME
Septs of Menteith: AIRTH, ALLARDYCE, BLAIR, BONTEIN, BONTINE, BONTAIN, BUNTING, GRAHAME, HADDEN, HALDANE, MACGIBBON, MACGILVERNOCK, MACGRIME, MENTHEITH, MONTEATH, MONTEITH, PYE, PYOTT
"GRAHAM." Scots Kith and Kin and Illustrated Map Revised Second Edition. Edinburgh, SCOT: Clan House, c.1970. p.57. Print.
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