of Edmond Castle, Cumberland, and of The Elms, Eastbourne, Sussex. J.P. and D.L. for Sussex, and J.P. Cumberland. Lineage in Burke’s Landed Gentry [10]. Educated at Harrow and Trin. Coll. Camb. M.A. Inherited the title from his uncle, who had no issue.

The monument in Hayton Church [12] of Reginald John Graham shows a beautiful rendition of a joint coat-of-arms, with the left half the Graham three escallops in chief, and on the left the three towers and crescent of the Boileau de Castelnau. I reproduce the photo in my wee piece on the Grahams. But I’m puzzled by the use of the three escallops in chief like this. That’s just the standard Graham arms and didn’t (I thought) apply to the Grahams of Edmond Castle. Puzzling.

Personally, I suspect that the “official” arms of the Grahams of Edmond Castle (in Burke’s Landed Gentry) were invented; possibly copied directly from the arms of the Baronetcy which lasted only a few generations in a side branch before dying out (according to Burke the arms of the Baronetcy were identical to those of the Grahams of Edmond Castle). Thus, I suspect that the only arms ever used by the non-Baronet line were the usual three scallops. There is no evidence that any other arms were ever used. However, the tower as a crest was used as more specific identification; I have an old silver christening mug from the Grahams of Edmond Castle, and this has the tower on it. I also have an old gold signet ring from them, with the tower on it.

Beneath the arms [MMC] [12] reads:
“In loving memory of Reginald John Graham of Edmond Castle, in this parish, and of The Elms, Eastbourne, Sussex, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Cumberland, and a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Sussex, who died June 22nd, 1897, aged 74 years.
And Ellen Leah, his wife, daughter of Thomas E.J. Boileau, A Judge in the Honourable East India Company’s Service at Madras, who died August 10th 1918, aged 80 years. Both lie here.”

With the entry of the Boileaus into the family tree, a huge amount of information becomes available. The Boileaus (once you go back a few generations) were a Huguenot family, nobility from the south of France, intermarrying with other French noble families. Ellen’s pedigree can be traced in great detail in the pages of the sources shown here. However, her connection to the Boileau de Castelnau relies entirely on two family documents: [RBB], [9] copied by her granddaughter, Catherine Charity Graham Sneyd; and [BBB] [11], which I obtained from another Boileau descendant, Vincent O’Grady. I have so far found that these family documents are consistent with each other, and agree in most respects with Lart [13] and Chesnaye-Desbois [14], so I believe them to be accurate.