GRAHAM, Robert of Morphie, Sir ^{2 3 4 5}

   Another name for Robert was GRAHAME, Robert of Morphie, parish of Eglisgrig, Sir.³

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  General Notes:

During the reighn of King James VI, according to Criminal Trials in Scotland, Sir Robert Grahame of Morphie was one one of the pursuers, as a near kinsman, along with James Graham, brother of the dead man, for justice against Robert Symmer, who, it was claimed, had been responsible for the "crewall Slauchter" of David Graham, the son of "James Grahame of Leuchland".

see Criminal Trials in Scotland 1609-1624




"When the Earl of Montrose had his portrait painted by Jamesone, he was a mere youth of seventeen, a St Andrews student, but even then a bridegroom. His home was at his uncle's, Sir Robert Graham, the Covenanting laird of Morphie, near Montrose, who, himself, also sat to Jamesone. The boy bridegroom rode all the way from Morphie to Aberdeen, a distance of forty miles, to give the artist sittings."

"THE TRUSTEES OF THE LATE BARRON GRAHAME ESQ., OF MORPHIE, AT DUNBOG HOUSE FIFE
90. Sir Robert Grahame, of Morphie.
The picture is of the usual nearly-square size, 26 by 23 inches. Sir Robert's portrait is without date or signature. He is dressed in a black doublet, with frill or ruff round his neck. Sir Robert Grahame figured prominently in the Covenanting times. He was married to Euphemia Carnegie, sister to the 1st Earl of Southesk, who was, therefore, aunt to the wife of the great Montrose. It is conjectured that this portrait had been executed about the same time as that of the Earl of Montrose, to whom he acted as a guardian, namely, in 1629. Sir Robert took the Covenanting side of the questions of his day, and played a very important part in them."

"The story of the discovery is so interestingly narrated by Mr. Napier that no apology is needed for giving it in bis own words :

'On the 3rd of November, 1629, Montrose rode to Aberdeen from Morphie, the seat of Sir Robert Graham, one of his curators, and there had his portrait painted. At this time he was just seventeen years of age, and on the 10th of November, 1629, as the same accounts prove, he was married to the daughter of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird (afterwards Earl of Southesk), in the kirk within the park of Kinnaird. The young couple immediately took up their abode in the Castle of Kinnaird on 2nd Dec, 1629, and from a note in the account books the picture would seem to have been a marriage present from Graham of Morphie to the young Countess. The artist's name is not mentioned in the accounts, but as George Jamesone, Scotland's only known artist of the period, was at that very time following the profession of a portrait painter in his native town of Aberdeen, the reason of the young nobleman riding to Aberdeen to sit for his portrait is manifest.' "

from The Scottish Vandyke




"Sir Robert Graham of Morphie ..... was one of the tutors of his kinsman the great marquis of Montrose, and in 1638 he accompanied him on his first visit to Aberdeen at the head of the army of the Covenant. He continued to adhere to him during the whole of the wars in which he was engaged in Scotland, previous to his departure for the Continent in 1646, nearly to the ruin of his estate. In 1661, when Montrose's head was taken down from the pinnacle of the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, Graham of Morphie was one of the five personal friends of the great marquis present to receive it."

from Electric Scotland website




"Graham
Robert, Sir
30/7/1662
of Morphie 30 July 1662
Testament Dative and Inventory
St Andrews Commissary Court
CC20/4/12"

from Wills and Testaments ^{2 3 6 7}

  Research Notes:

EGLISRIG

"St Cyrus (formerly Ecclesgreig, Ecclescyrig) (Kincardineshire)"

from ancestor.able website ⁸

Robert married Euphame (Margaret?) CARNEGIE, daughter of David CARNEGIE of Colluthie, then 7th of Kinnaird and Euphame WEMYSS, 20 October 1599(contract).¹ (Euphame (Margaret?) CARNEGIE was born about 1578 and died before 21 April 1627 ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Euphame, married (contract 15, 16, and 20 October 1599) to Robert Graham, younger of Morphie, a grandson of Sir Henry Graham of Morphie."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8)




"Carnegie
Margaret, Dame
21/4/1627
Lady Morphie, spouse of Sir Robert Grahame of Morphie,knight, parish of Eglisgrig 21 April 1627
Testament Dative and Inventory
St Andrews Commissary Court
CC20/4/8"

from Wills and Testaments ^{1 3}