James Graham
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James Graham (1819 - 1898)

James Graham
Born in County Clare, Irelandmap
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Died at age 79 in South Yarra, Victoria, Australiamap
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James GRAHAM born 5 Feb. 1819, bapt. Ennis 20 Feb.1819, son of Anna Maria Ievers & James Moore Graham, died Melbourne, Australia 1898, marr. Mary Alleyne COBHAM daur of Dr Francis Cobham of Barbados Jamaica.

18 children.

He left Cupar, Fife, Scotland on 5 Sept. 1838. The 'Alfred' landed in Sydney on 16 Jan.1839, and James started overland to Melbourne on 5 April 1839, arriving on 10 May. Merchant, agent, politician. See: Australian dictionary of biography, 1851-90 pp.282-3; Pioneer Merchant: the letters of James Graham 1839-54, edited by Sally Graham, Hyland House, 1985. A wish of distinction by Penny Russell, MUP, 1994. A man about town: the letters of James Graham, Victorian Entrepreneur, 1854-1864, edited by Sally Graham, MUP, 1998. Graham, James 'Private letter books' University of Melbourne Archives. 'The voyage of the 'Alfred' in 1838' The Dunfermline Press Dec.11 1963 - Commonwealth Supplement.

James wrote "I was educated, at first, at Ennis College, Co. Clare, Ireland, and subsequently at the Madras Academy, Cupar, Fife, Scotland. I resided in Scotland from 1832 to 1838." He would have been 13 in 1832. His sister Jane and James must have been the responsibility of the Graham grandparents (and his aunt Charlotte who was 18 when James was born), in Ireland after their mother died, because of their moving together to Cupar, either when JMG married Mary Christie in 1827, when their grandfather John Graham died in 1829, or when James wrote that he had arrived, in 1832. James wrote (about Mary Christie) "my dear mother", and "..I should like to have been able to have called one little girl after Mrs. Graham solely for whom I have, if possible, more than the affection of a son for she always was a kind and fond mother to me." [Letter to Mrs Lyon Campbell 19 Sept 1850: transcribed by Sally Graham.]

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James died on 31 July 1898 at his home, Ellibank, Punt Road, South Yarra, Victoria.[1]

Sources

  1. "The late Mr. James Graham." 6 August 1898. Leader (Melbourne), p. 5. Retrieved 31 August 2019 by Clare Spring from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197533170.

Australian dictionary of biography, 1851-90 pp.282-3; Pioneer Merchant: the letters of James Graham 1839-54, edited by Sally Graham, Hyland House, 1985. A wish of distinction by Penny Russell, MUP, 1994. A man about town: the letters of James Graham, Victorian Entrepreneur, 1854-1864, edited by Sally Graham, MUP, 1998. Graham, James 'Private letter books' University of Melbourne Archives. 'The voyage of the 'Alfred' in 1838' The Dunfermline Press Dec.11 1963 - Commonwealth Supplement.





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