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  • Re: Graham Family History problem

    From Alexander Carroll@21:1/5 to Gordon Johnson on Tue Feb 28 08:36:46 2023
    On Tuesday, 20 January 2004 at 12:04:25 UTC, Gordon Johnson wrote:
    Murchadh wrote:
    On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:38:12 GMT, sl...@ishipress.com (Sam Sloan)
    wrote:


    On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:26:16 +0000 (UTC), Dennis Ahern >><ah...@world.std.com> wrote:


    There was a criminal case brought in Belfast Ireland in 1772 against a >>>>man named Andrew Graham.

    The index to the Belfast News-Letter shows an Andrew Graham in a list of >>>persons named in relation to a rising or riot at Kilconway, county Antrim >>>reported on page 2 of the edition of 17 March 1772. There are several >>>other mentions of Graham, Andrew in the index, but this was the only one >>>for 1772.

    See: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/bnl/
    Index to Belfast Newsletter 1737-1800

    This, and other useful links, can be reached from the TIARA web site.
    _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ >>>Dennis Ahern | The Irish Ancestral Research Association
    Acton, Massachusetts | Dept. W, P.O. Box 619, Sudbury, MA 01776 >>>ah...@world.std.com | http://www.tiara.ie
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    Thank you. I suspect that this is our boy. He joined in the American >>Revolutionary War shortly after arriving in America.

    On the ship passenger list for the Pennsylvania Farmer, this family is >>all listed with the surname Grimbs. There are David, Jean, Matthew and >>Andrew Grimbs.

    See http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~merle/Rm/PaFarmer.htm

    I have been wondering the reason for this. Perhaps they were running

    from the law. In every other source, their last name was Graham, not

    Grimbs.

    The Grahams running from the law to Ulster and Holland usually changed their name by spelling Graham backwards to give Maharg. There are
    Mahargs who stayed in Ulster or emigrated to North America, but most changed their names so they could sneak back into the Borders of
    England and Scotland after James VI/I proscribed them and hunted them
    down for reiving.
    ** And he shipped many of them to Ireland when they were caught**
    Interestingly, Graham is technically an English Border family, not Scottish, but it hardly matters as the Border reivers would fight for whichever country paid them the most and there was one battle where
    the reivers changed sides three times as the bidding rose!
    ** No, the original govt. records of the period call them a Scottish
    family,
    though they indeed straddled the border, causing havoc on both sides.
    And some of them made their way back from Ireland, BUT without changing
    their surname at all.
    There is also a Scottish surname McHarg, common in Carrick in the 15th
    and 16th centuries, so some of these "Maharg" people could simply have
    been McHargs. It is best to check ALL possibilities.
    Gordon Johnson.

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