David Graham, 3rd Viscount of Dundee

DAVID GRAHAM Viscount of Dundee and Lord Graham of Claverhouse

Fake Genealogy

According to at least one pedigree published by FamilySearch, David Graham, here treated, who was the Viscount of Dundee, and Lord Graham of Claverhouse, married a lady named Marion Bell, with whom he had five children. The baptism of one child, a daughter named Anna was registered at Montrose in Angus on 21 November 1670, and the baptisms of the other four at Hawick in Roxburghshire, William and Bessie, twins, on 1 October 1671, Robert on 7 March 1675, and Archbald on 6 March 1678. FamilySearch: David Graham 9th Laird of Claverhouse and 3rd Viscount The marriage to Marion Bell is followed by at least one pedigree published by Ancestry. Ancestry: Marion Bell

The marriage proposed by FamilySearch and Ancestry, between David Graham, here treated, and Marion Bell, is not supported by the biographical summary printed in volume three of The Scots Peerage, which does not identify a wife and children for him, suggesting instead that he died unmarried and without a legitimate heir.

Moreover, one child awarded to him by FamilySearch, a daughter named Anna Grahame, whose baptism was registered at Montrose in Angus on 21 November 1670 is in fact the daughter of David Grahame, one of the bailies or magistrates of the Burgh of Montrose. The name of her mother is not recorded.

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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12 April 1675: Extract Registered Bond by Mr David Grahame brother german to the Laird of Claverhous, as principal, and John Scott of Canterland, and Mr Patrick Sandilands of Cottoun as cautioners, binding themselves to warrand the magistrates of Aberdeen from all risk, in their liberating Robert Grahame of Morphie from the tolbooth of their town, where he was imprisoned for debts due to many persons therein named.- a protection from the King having also been granted in his favour. Dated at Aberdeen. Registered in Books of Council and Session 2 June same year, 1675. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Scrymgeour Wedderburn of Wedderburn Family, Earls of Dundee, reference GD137/1627

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3 January 1691: Petition of Wm Welsh of Skarr against Erskine of Cambo, son and heir to Sir Charles Erskine of Cambo, Lyon King at Arms, deceased, and the officers of State as representing Lord Dundee and David Graham, his brother, John Douglas of Stenhouse and the heir of James Wilson of Stramulligan. National Records of Scotland, Supplementary Warrants and Parliamentary Papers, reference PA7/14

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7 January 1691: Petition of Patrick McDouall of French against the officers of state as representing the forfeited Viscount of Dundee and his brother David Graham. National Records of Scotland, Supplementary Warrants and Parliamentary Papers, reference PA7/14

Biographical Summary

David Graham, here treated, who was the third Viscount of Dundee, and Lord Graham of Claverhouse, was the second son of William Graham and Magdalene Carnegie, and the brother of the first Viscount. The Scots peerage III; 331-2

Genealogy

The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Volume III. (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1906), 618 pp.