Early records of an old Glasgow family

122 THE EARLY RECORDS OF
being Item No. 22 of " Inventury of Papers and Writts returned
by Mr. Hew Craufurd, Clerk to the Signet, to Mary Hill of
Lambhill," and the receipt for which she signs as " Mary Hill " of
date 24th April, 1753. 1 The likelihood is they were married in
1 76 1, the eldest child of Mary Hill and Robert Graham, viz., Lilias
Graham, being born in 1 762. 2
Respecting Robert Grahams Family.
Robert Graham, who served some time in the Navy, was a
younger son of John Graham of Kilmardinny, and brother of
Walter Graham, who succeeded his Father in that estate. 3
The mural inscription previously referred to is as follows, viz. :
" Sacred to the Memory of Robert Graham, Esq., of Kilmannan,
ob. 1804, aet. 82.
" Also of his wife, Mrs. Mary Hill of Gairbraid and Lambhill,
ob. 1809, ^t- 79> an d °f their daughter, Lillias Graham, ob. 6th
December, 1836, a^t. 74."
Mary Hill's signature, as appended to the " Inventury of
Papers" above referred to, is a strong and distinct autograph, and
it is interesting to note that after her husband's death in 1804 she
appears to have reverted to or used her maiden name of Hill. 4
Their issue, viz. :
By Robert Graham, Mary Hill had two daughters, viz. :
'Genealogical MSS. of Hills, Craufurds, etc., No. 22, Item 22.
2 See Inscription on the Tombstone, east from Dr. Peter Lowe's in the High Churchyard.
3 Ibid., see also for information respecting Robert Graham of Dalsholm and Kilmannan letter
by Alex. Graham Ounlop, Esq., of Gairbraid, Corsock House, 16th August, 1881, to W. H. H.
Hill, Munimenta Miscellanea (Dunlop of Gairbraid Papers), No. 3, Item 5/1.
* See Letter by her subscribed " Mary Hill," dated Gairbraid, January 18th, 1792, addressed to
the Rev. James Couper, Minister of Baldernock, shown to W. H. H. by Dr. Garroway, Garrow-
bank, Riddrie, in 1881.