Hi Listers, To all of you who are researching the Graham name in the Borders area of Cumberland & Dumfriesshire. If any of you have been as fortunate as I have to trace their Graham ancestry back into the 17th century in the Cumberland area you will be aware that Arthuret Parish in Cumberland is devoid of a lot of genealogical material such as Parish Registers & Bishop's Transcripts due to several factors. I have a project that I have been working on for some time and that is trying to create a time-line of what Graham families existed in Arthuret Parish and at what period in time. By using records such as "The Calendar of Border Papers", "The Border Manors", "The Debateable Land by T.J.Carlyle", "The History and Antiqities of Westmoreland & Cumberland by Nicholson & Burn" etc. it is possible to gain a good idea of what was going on with the Graham's from the 15th - 18th centuries. Admittedly a lot of guess work is entailed but it can be reasonably educated guesswork if various facts are supported by more than one publication. What I wish to ask of all of you Graham researchers is if you have even the smallest piece of information regarding a Graham over the period of the 16th & 17th and early 18th centuries I would appreciate receiving it so that I can add it to what I have so far accumulated. If you have such information, I would appreciate the actual wording of the item and the source reference. With assistance from you, maybe it will be possible to unravel some of the mystery of the Grahams on the English side of the Border and perhaps the Scottish side as well. Let's see where this will go. Best regards, Bruce Glass New Zealand