1730 - 1790 (60 years)
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| Name |
William (2nd of Airth) Graham |
| Birth |
1730 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1790 |
| Person ID |
I80730 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
12 Sep 2016 |
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| Notes |
- he was born in 1730 and succeeded his father in 1746. He married in 1760, Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Stirling of Ardoch; Sir Henry Stirling was brother-in-law to Graeme of Braco, who had married his sister Catherine Stirling, and his daughter, Mrs Graham of Airth, was first cousin to Mary Graeme, Mrs Smythe of Methven Castle, and to General David Graeme of Braco; their ancestress, little Meg Murray of Strowan (near Crieff), had married Stirling of Ardoch at the age of thirteen in the reign of James VI.; the child-mother used to be playing at bogie round the stacks when called away to nurse her child; it is said she was the mother of thirty-one children!
Mr William Graham and his wife, Miss Stirling of Ardoch, had a family of seven sons and eight daughters. Of the sons, five died young: Henry, born in 1766, Captain in the 42nd Regiment, died in 1787; William, born 1767, died 1768; John, Charles and Bruce all died when children. The two surviving sons succeeded in turn to Airth
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