When John Pattison Graham was born on 6 March 1797, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, his father, William Graham I, was 34 and his mother, Margaret Pattison, was 38. He married Elizabeth Hatt Noble on 15 January 1836, in Skelmorlie, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Cunningham, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1851 and Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom for about 20 years. He died on 3 October 1886, in Skelmorlie, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 89, and was buried in Glasgow Necropolis, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Scottish: habitational name from Grantham in Lincolnshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Graham (as well as Grantham, Grandham, and Granham). See also Grantham .
Irish (especially Ulster): in Ireland Graham is generally the Scottish name, but it has additionally been adopted as an Anglicized form of both Ó Creacháin (see Crehan ) and Ó Gormghaile (see Gormley ).
History: The surname Graham was taken to Scotland at the beginning of the 12th century by the Norman baron William de Graham, holder of the manor of Grantham in Lincolnshire, from whom many if not all modern bearers are probably descended. The chief of Clan Graham is the Duke of Montrose.
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