Janet Grahame

Worth checking Scotland's People: Old Parish Registers - Births and Baptisms

• 14 February 1774 birth or baptism of Janet Grahame, daughter of Richard Grahame and Hannah Nicolson, in the parish of Annan

NOTE: Previous birth information was probably a generation out: Birth circa 1754 Kirkpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The second record is much more likely, giving her marriage at age 28, and confirming Scottish naming pattern

From Scotland's People: Old Parish Records - Marriages and Banns

• 14 March 1802 marriage or banns of James Graham to Janet Graham, in the parish of St Cuthbert's

From Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany Volume 19 Published 1802 Page 238 Marriages

Wednesday, 17 March 1802 At Edinburgh, James Grahame, Esq. advocate, to Miss Janet Graham, daughter of Richard Graham, Esq. of Blatwood.

From William Henry Hill handwritten manuscript, p30 97 Jean Grahame 98 Euphemia Erskine Robison 99 Anne G Robison 100 James G author Sabbath 101 William Richard G 102 James G 103 Thomas G.jpg

[WHH-REF:100] James Grahame, author of the "Sabbath" and other poems, second son of Thomas Grahame [WHH-REF:86] was born on 22 April 1765. He passed as a writer to the Signet in 1791 and as an advocate in 1795. In 1809 however, he abandoned the legal profession and entered the Church of England. On [blank] 1802 he married Janet daughter of Richard Graham of Blatwood in the County of Dumfries and of the Moat Annan, and died on 14 September 1811 leaving issue viz:

• Thomas Grahame [WHH-REF:101a] born 3 October 1804 died 24 March 1838 sine prole
• Hannah Grahame [WHH-REF:100b] born 16 May 1803 died 23 November 1843 unmarried
• William Richard Grahame [WHH-REF:101]
• James Grahame [WHH-REF:100c] born 14 December 1809 and died in infancy