GRAYME, John ¹

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  General Notes:

"A Gilbert Cheyne was a witness of an instrument documented in Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire - Protocol Book of Sir John Christisone, 1518-1551, dated, 25 May 1536, which reads:

'191. Instrument narrating that Mr. John Freser personally compeared, alleging that he had warned and, so far as he could, required Gilbert Freser, his brother german, and John Grayme, son of Egidia Arbuthtnot, as procurator for his mother, for her interest, to meet at Mvtrail (Muchalls) on said date for division of the goods, personal and legal, of the late Thomas Freser of Stanevod, their father (for certain moral reasons which he states); and also he said he sustained much reproach in the consistory of Aberdeen by a process led against him by William Strauchyne, son of said Egidia, by letters compulsatory. Wherefore, asserting that he was the only executor of his late father and the executordative of all goods not in his father's testament, for his relief at the hands of those having interest, Mr. John passed to the manor place of Mvkkail and there he caused the following animals to be appraised by trustworthy persons upon oath, viz.: Patrick Toucht, Walter Banzeoucht, Thomas Graye, John Donaldson and Duncan Fola,--first, 17 ploughing oxen, price of the piece 34s; five old oxen, price of the piece 24s; six cows with six calves, price of the piece 30s; four cows, price of the piece 24s; one old cow 16s; eight calves, price of the piece 9s; three "steris" of three years, price of each 20s; three calves of two years and one "quiok," price of the piece 13s. 4d; 36 brood sheep with lambs, price of the piece 6s; ten rams, price of the piece 6s; thirty other sheep, price of the piece 5s; fourteen sheep two years old ("bidentes"), price of the piece 5s; twenty-nine "hoggis," price of the piece 40d; four "quakkis" of three years, price of the piece 18s.: And this Mr. John alleged he had done for payment of the debts in his late father's testament and for other causes to be expressed, time and place fitting; protesting that the absence of Gilbert and Egidia should not prejudice him in future. He craved instrument. Done at Mvkkell 25 May 1536. Witnesses, William Blakhall of that Ilk, Sirs James Couper and Henry Quhitwellis, chaplains, Andrew Keyth and Gilbert Cheyne. 71b.' "

from Parish and Probate Records, Aberdeen, Scotland 1518-1551 at the cheyne family website ¹

  Research Notes:

SUCCESSION

Some of the difficulties with generations and wives in the Graham of Morphie genealogy are dealt with if we assume that Robert Graham of Morphie who married Katherine Panter had, after his death, only a daughter, Helen Graham, but no living son; and that Henry Graham of Morphie was the son not of Robert Graham of Morphie but of this John Grayme, who was, himself, the son of Robert Graham and Giles Arbuthnott.

If the estate was entailed in the male line, then we assume Helen Graham did not inherit, nor did her uncle Andrew Graham inherit, since he was a cleric, so the line would go back to Robert, the husband of Giles Arbuthnott, and pass down through their second son, John.

This solution also solves the problem of the dating of the marriage of Jean Strachan to Henry Graham, and the marriage of two different Giles, Arbuthnott and Douglas, to two Robert Grahams of Morphie.