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From: "C. Koch" <>
Subject: Re: [FER-GOLD] Grahams of Fermanagh
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:10:45 -0700
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Interesting. How would one find out more about this historically, etc?
Thx, Cherie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Graham" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [FER-GOLD] Grahams of Fermanagh


> You may be referring to the Knockmanoul Grahams. Supposedly descended from
> 7
> brothers pre 1700.
>
> Bob Graham
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "C. Koch" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [FER-GOLD] Grahams of Fermanagh
>
>
>> If you don't mind my asking, which group intermarried with the Armstrongs
>> alot and settled near Ballinamallard? I had heard that there was one
>> identifiable group that stuck together.
>>
>> Thanks, Cherie
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bob Graham" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:15 AM
>> Subject: Re: [FER-GOLD] Grahams of Fermanagh
>>
>>
>> > Hi Roy,
>> >
>> > There were several sources of Grahams. One group from the borders took
> up
>> > Elizabethan land grants. Later some of their kinfolk were deported.
>> > Another
>> > source were those fleeing various conflicts in Scotland and settling
>> > mainly
>> > in the East. Others simply arrived in ones and twos for a whole host of
>> > reasons. Early spellings were Grymes or Grimes.
>> >
>> > One other source is the Grehan, Greaghan, Gormley indigenous Irish
>> > whose
>> > names were corrupted into Grimes then Graham.
>> >
>> > Plenty to choose from.
>> >
>> >
>> > Bob Graham
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Roy Keys" <>
>> > To: <>
>> > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:34 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [FER-GOLD] Grahams of Fermanagh
>> >
>> >
>> >> Weren't the Grahams among the early Scots who were resettled to
>> >> Ulster?
>> >> My
>> >> Down Graham ancestors probably came over from Perthshire ca. 1760, but
>> > they
>> >> were by no means the only Grahams in Banbridge, and may even have
> joined
>> >> relatives already in place from earlier generations of migration.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Roy
>> >>
>> >>
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