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Alfred Adolphus Doran Graham, known as Adolphus, died on 19th July1921. His wife Julia died on 8th December 1919. Adolphus claimed to be descended from Viscount Dundee of Claverhouse who died at the battle of Killiekrankie in 1689. Julia was from the Derriman family in Camden.
Adolphus was a grandson of John Graham, born in England in 1774 and transported to Australia aboard the convict ship “Ganges”, arriving in Sydney in June 1797. John Graham’s wife Elizabeth (Meinay) accompanied him on the Ganges as a free settler.
After serving his sentence John and Elizabeth settled in the Parramatta area. John and Elizabeth’s third child George ( a wheelwright) married Mary Wilson, herself born in Concord to a well known colonial family. They had a wheelwright business in Minto and a hotel in Liverpool.
Adolphus was born in Liverpool on 19th January 1847 to George and Mary. He married Julia Derryman,from Camden on 18th August 1869 at Camden. They had fourteen children, thirteen of whom lived past their eighties. Adolphus kept a general store and auction house in Argyle Street Picton adjacent Stonequarry Creek. He was also the town Apothecary. They were affectionately known as Ma and Pa Graham. They built a house in Picton Road called “Petherton” after Julia’s Family village in England. He was elected to the local council in 1901, a position he held on and off to 1920.
Adolphus Graham was a church warden at St Marks Picton (this Church) for about fifty years between the 1870’s and the1920’s.
