Mrs Agnes Graham

Agnes Graham was resident at No. 9 from 1841 until her death there on 7 October 1859. She was born Agnes Spears c. 1772 at Kirkcaldy and was the widow of Thomas Graham, Crown Chamberlain in Orkney. Thomas Graham was a lawyer in Glasgow and Sheriff Substitute in Haddington before being appointed in 1829 to the position of Crown Chamberlain in Orkney. He died at Kirkwall on 25 April 1835.

The censuses of 1841 and 1851 show two unmarried daughters, Agnes and Catherine, living with with the widowed Agnes Spears. Catherine Berry Graham was born at Glasgow on 26 March 1803. She continued to live at No. 9 with her sister until after 1881.

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