Andrew Graham was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a son of John Graham (1600-1670). Andrew fled to Armagh, Northern Ireland, to avoid the religious persecution of Presbyterians. In Armagh he met and married Jane Masters (1661-1700) of Staffordshire, England. She was a daughter of Michael Masters and Elizabeth Hall Masters. They had ten children. Five survived to adulthood. Mary (b. 1684), Margaret (b. 1686), Sarah (b. 1690), John (b. 1694), and Robert (b. 1697).

SOURCE: The Reverend John Graham of Woodbury, Connecticut and His Descendants,

The Monastery Hill Press,

by Helen Graham Carpenter (1942)

SOURCE: The extended genealogy of Andrew Graham (1658-1698) of Scotland,

by P. C. Graham, South Carolina (2016).

William de Graham is "oldest titled Graham"

BY W. JAMES (JIM) NETHERY, FSA Scot

On the occasion of the Annual General Meeting of the Clan Graham Society at Buchanan Castle Golf Club, July 1995, His Grace the Eighth Duke of Montrose described William de Graham as "the oldest titled Graham." He said that he had served in the court of King David I, of Scotland, from the time of his journey north from England in 1124, to assume the throne of Scotland. The Duke went on to say that King David introduced a revolutionary new concept, feudalism, to Scotland. It improved his ability to govern and helped stabilize the nation.

As a reward for his services to the King, William de Graham was given the baronies of Dalkeith and Abercorn in Midlothian in 1127. He witnessed the signing of the charter of Holyrood Abbey, in 1128.

From the first days of his reign, King David gave large grants of his kingdom to his knights, as a reward for their service. He established the first Scottish Mint and introduced the concept of burghs. He established dioceses and parishes to strengthen the church, and endowed many monastic orders with land, enabling them to build abbeys and priories. The spread of feudalism helped King David tie the younger sons of English or Norman families to him as their king and feudal lord.

William's sons John de Graham and Peter de Graham of Abercorn and Dalkeith continued in the service of Kings Malcolm IV and William I. John de Graham is recorded as a witness in 1170 and at the court of William the Lion at Alyth in 1200. William de Graham's descendant, Sir John Graham of Dundaff, died while fighting beside William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk, on July 22, 1298.

William Wallace is featured in the motion picture BRAVEHEART.

Sir John Graham of Dundalk was the son of David de Graham and Agnes Noble and was born in the lands of Dundaff, Stirlingshire, Scotland. During the Wars of Scottish Independence he fought alongside Sir William Wallace. Sir John de Graham fought at Stirling Bridge and Falkirk. He was one of several notable Scottish casualties at the Battle of Falkirk, along with Sir John Stewart, Lord of Bonkyll on 22 July 1298, when the Scottish forces were routed by Edward I of England's stronger force of cavalry.

He is buried at the Falkirk Old Parish Church, Stirlingshire, Falkirk, Scotland, with other fallen comrades. Sir John's gravestone and effigy can be found in Falkirk Old Parish Church. The inscription reads:

Here lyes Sir John the Grame, baith wight and wise, 

Ane of the chiefs who rescewit Scotland thrise, 

Ane better knight not to the world was lent, 

Nor was gude Graham of truth and hardiment.