McHardy Family

[Christine Knox]

Searching Aboyne for theMcHardy family
Other afiliated surnames Durward Cromer Cumming

[Flattybasher9]

1 Birth + 1 Marriage + 1 Death, (McHardy (variant)) between 1538 and 1854
12 male births, 10 female births, 14 male marriages, 4 female marriages, 7 male deaths, 7 female deaths, between 1855 and 2009, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, surname McHardy.
"Scotlands people" will give you the name references at a price.

Regards

Malky

[Christine Knox]

Got a few at register house thanks getting there slow but sure

[Flattybasher9]

Christine, you will have fun with the McHardys. There quite a few of them about Aberdeenshire. I have 48 of them in my tree, mainly from the Midmar area of Aberdeenshire, but they do spread out a fair bit.

Regards

Malky

[Christine Knox]

Before starting my research I thought we all came from Dundee
They are giving me headaches because each generation keeps using the same names I have about 4 David Durward McHardys' and umteen Ann Durwards and Ann Durward McHardys'
  no imagination

[RobinRedBreast]

Hello There,

I've just seen this post about the McHardy's of Aberdeenshire.
I recently looked into my Scottish ancestors. My 4x great grandma was Margaret McHardy. She was baptised on the 6th of December 1786 in Strathdon. This is what the image of her baptism from "Scotland's People" states:
"Dec.6: John McHardy in Luib had a daughter in fornication with Anne Cameron called Margaret McHardy."


Margaret McHardy went on to marry Alexander Sector (1779 - 1870), but I'm not sure when though. The first child I can find baptised from the pair is John, baptised 1817 in Logie-Coldstone. Then from 1823-1832, they had four more children baptised in Braemar/Ballater.

Margaret died in Birse, on the 28th of March 1865.

I think the amazing thing about the death records on "Scotland's People", is that they hold so much information on them, from 1855, anyway. A lot of them give the father's name and occupation.
They also give the name, maiden surname and occupation of the mother. I was able to find from this that Margaret's parents were indeed not married.

Anyway, sorry for waffling on here. What I am trying to find is where Luib is/ was please?
 This is where John McHardy was stated as coming from/ where Margaret McHardy was born. But the only Luib that I can find appears to be on the Isle of Skye. And that is nowhere near Aberdeenshire.

If anyone has any information it would be gratefully accepted.

Thank you very much. 

[Flattybasher9]

Have a look at

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01lus/

It refers to Cockbridge in Upper Donside.

Malky

[Forfarian]

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ2608

Interesting that one of the sources for the name is a Reverend McHardy.

Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae lists
- Charles McHardy, born 1747, son of John McHardy in the Luib, Corgarff and Helen, daughter of Andrew Farquharson of Allargue*, was minister of Crathie from 1789 until his death in 1822. He was the author of the Statistical Account of Crathie.
- Charles Forbes McHardy, born 1820, son of John McHardy, farmer, and Janet Stewart, was minister of Corgarff from 1858 to his death in 1891
- William McHardy, son of James McHardy and Margaret Smith, born Strathdon 1801, was minister of Boddam from 1901

*Allargue is about a mile north-west from Luib

BTW there are no fewer than 162 McHardys in Strathdon in the 1851 census! See https://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

You can see where most of the farms they lived in were by going to http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=57.1644&lon=-3.2131&layers=5&b=1 and dragging the map around.

[RobinRedBreast]

Have a look at

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01lus/

It refers to Cockbridge in Upper Donside.

Malky

Thank you.