King James I and the Grahams – Royal grovelling Grovelling to kings in times past was probably a wise, rather than a pitiful thing to do. Displease his or her royal majesty and it was ‘off with hi...Read More
Pacification of The Borders The Pennington Archive A site about the border reivers has an interesting selection of information about our cattle-stealing ancestors. There are maps, blog posts on ...Read More
Grahams of Cumberland part 3: The DNA thing In part one, I started out with ‘my’ John Graham, born c1750. While assuming we are descended from the border reiver Grahams, a couple of lovely relativ...Read More
Lang Will: Grahams of Cumberland – part two Cumbrian Grahams are likely descended from the notorious reiver clan, who were infamous in the 16th century. The big question is: who were the reiver Grah...Read More
Grahams of Cumberland – part one Many years ago, it was said there were more Grahams in the Carlisle phone book than Smiths. Phone books have gone the way of the dodo, but the point remains: the sur...Read More