GRAHAM, Robert of Knockdolian
(About 1530-) |
GRAHAM, Robert of Knockdolian 1
User ID: F478. Research Notes: KNOCKDOLIAN Robert married Egidia GAW 'of Maw' (Fife) 20 January 1574(1575) (contract).1 (Egidia GAW 'of Maw' (Fife) was born about 1540 and died in August 1594 1.) Marriage Notes: "William Graham .... married, 5 November 1556, Egidia (Geillis) Gaw .... She survived her husband, and contracted herself, 20 January 1574-75, in marriage to Robert Graham of Knockdolian, who alienated to her and his children by her, the sunny half of the lands and barony of Dod or Muirlathrinewood, Forfar, of which she took sasine 5 October 1575, though the contract of marriage was not implemented. On 8 November 1583 she took sasine of a part of the lands of Drumkilbo, purchased by her from David Tyrie of Drumkilbo. She appears in the Chairge of the Rentall of the Master of the Hospital of Dundee in 1588." |
1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 3 (1906).
2 e-books, History of the County of Ayr with a genealogical account of the families of Ayrshire vol.1 by James Paterson (1847) page 305.
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