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           150th Anniversary in Canada

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          • External link opens in new tab or window2006 (79th Coutts Reunion) Invitation
          • External link opens in new tab or window2006-06-12 (79th Coutts Reunion) Map
          • External link opens in new tab or window2006-12-23 (79th Coutts Reunion) DVD/Video

          Simcoe County


          Upon arrival to Canada from Scotland in 1856 the original Coutts home was in the Midhurst area of Simcoe County in the province of Ontario.

                    


          External link opens in new tab or window2680 Old 2nd S Springwater ON



          Farquharson Clan





          Original Location in Scotland



          External link opens in new tab or windowMilltown of Allargue, Corgarff, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, U.K.


          It is on the Milltown Burn (creek) very close to the Don River and at that time was on the Military Road (North from Corgarff Castle barracks to Fort George at Inverness).  The Allargue Arms (near Cock Bridge on A939 / Lecht Rd.) is to the West of Milltown.  The nearby Allargue Estate (a Farquharson house) was also on the old Military Road.


          Scottish Highland Clearances


          "In the second phase, landlords moved to the more draconian policy of expelling people from their estates.

          This was increasingly associated with 'compulsory emigration', in which landlords cancelled rent arrears and paid the passage of the 'redundant' families in their estates to North America and, eventually, Australia. The process reached a climax during the potato famine of 1846–55."

            [16]:370–371

          Lynch, Michael (1991). Scotland, a New History (1992 ed.). London: Pimlico. ISBN 9780712698931.



          Clan Farquharson Septs

          Barrie, Bowman, Brebner, Bremner, Bryant, Carracher, Clan Christie, Christison, Christy, Coates, Coats, Coutts, Cromar, Farquhar, Ferries, Findlay, Findlayson, Findlaison, Findley, Finlay, Findlay, Finlayson, Finley, Finleyson, Gracie, Grassie, Grassick, Greusach, Hardie, Hardy, Herald, Higgins, Higginson, Kellas, Kerracher, Leys, Lion(s), Lyon(s), MacArtney, MacGaig, MacCartney, MacCraig, MacCuaig, MacEaracher, MacErcher, MacErracher, MacFarquhar, MacFerchar, MacHardie, MacHardy, MacKerchar, MacKerracher, MacKindlay, MacKinlay, MacKinley, MacWade, McKinley, Paterson, Patterson, Pattison, Reaich, Reoch, Riach, Souders, Soutter, Tawse, Tay, Wade, Wood

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          Duncan Coutts & Margaret McHardy


          In 1856 with six children they emigrated to Canada from Milltown of Allargue in the Eastern Scottish Highlands.  They had been tenants on lands associated with the Farquharson family of Invercauld Estate, Braemar, Aberdeenshire.  

          In times past the "Coutts" and "McHardy" names were considered a "Sept" or branch of the Farquharson Clan. 

          The McHardy sisters originally were tenants on property owned by the Forbes family of Castle Newe and Edinglassie, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire.

          It is very likely that in Scotland the Coutts were Presbyterians and the McHardy were Catholic.


          ID#
          Given
          Surname
          Birth
          Death
          0.0
          Duncan
          Coutts
          1814-11-??
          1887-03-14
          0.0
          Margaret
          McHardy
          1817-??-??
          1863-??-??
          0.1
          Alexander
          Coutts1844-07-01
          1922-08-15
          0.2James
          Coutts1846-02-15
          1919-12-06
          0.3Jane
          Coutts
          1848-01-01
          1924-??-??
          0.4Duncan
          Coutts1850-09-20
          1888-??-??
          0.5Margaret
          Coutts1852-04-07
          1920-??-??
          0.6Euphemia
          Coutts1855-01-29
          1933-04-22
          0.7Charles
          Coutts1857-02-27
          1935-10-18
          0.8George
          Coutts1861-05-25
          1938-05-26






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          Reunion Notices

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          • External link opens in new tab or window2020 (93rd Annual Coutts Reunion)

          • External link opens in new tab or window2019 (92nd Annual Coutts Reunion)

          • External link opens in new tab or window2018 (91st Annual Coutts Reunion)
          • External link opens in new tab or window2017 (90th Annual Coutts Reunion)
          • External link opens in new tab or window2016 (89th Annual Coutts Reunion)
          • External link opens in new tab or window2015 (88th Annual Coutts Reunion; FaceBook)
          • External link opens in new tab or window2014 (87th Annual Coutts Reunion; FaceBook)
          • External link opens in new tab or window2013 (86th Annual Coutts Reunion; Evite)
          • External link opens in new tab or window2012 (85th Annual Coutts Reunion; Evite)
          • External link opens in new tab or window2011 (84th Annual Coutts Reunion)
          • External link opens in new tab or window2010 (83rd Annual Coutts Reunion)
          • External link opens in new tab or window2009 (82nd Annual Coutts Reunion)
          • External link opens in new tab or window2008 (81st Annual Coutts Reunion)
          • External link opens in new tab or window2007 (80th Annual Coutts Reunion)

          Interesting Links on the Internet

          • External link opens in new tab or window1867 UK Survey: Allargue / Milltown
          • External link opens in new tab or window1867 UK Survey: East Corriehoul Grave Yard
          • External link opens in new tab or window1867 UK Survey: Coutts's Stone / Corgarff Castle
          • External link opens in new tab or window1869 UK Survey: Corgarff / Strathdon
          • External link opens in new tab or window1881 Canada Survey: Vespra Twp / D. Coutts
          • External link opens in new tab or windowGeographical-Historical Lot20 Con2 Vespra
          • External link opens in new tab or window1906 Ontario / UofT Survey: Huron Village, Site 19, Vespra Twp
          • External link opens in new tab or windowAllargue House (Corgarff, Scotland)
          • External link opens in new tab or windowMilitary Road (Corgarff, Scotland)
          • External link opens in new tab or windowBlairgowrie / Corgarff / Inverness
          • External link opens in new tab or windowCorgarff Castle
          • External link opens in new tab or windowCorriehoul Cemetery
          • External link opens in new tab or windowClan Farquharson
          • External link opens in new tab or windowInvercauld Estate
          • External link opens in new tab or windowClan Forbes
          • External link opens in new tab or windowMcHardy of Ordachoy
          • External link opens in new tab or windowUpper Donside Distilleries & Smugglers
          • External link opens in new tab or windowBloody Corgarff History
          • External link opens in new tab or windowCairngorms National Park
          • External link opens in new tab or windowScotlands Places (Online Research)

          • External link opens in new tab or windowSpringwater Provincial Park
          • External link opens in new tab or windowSimcoe County Museum
          • External link opens in new tab or windowTownship of Springwater
          • External link opens in new tab or windowWendake (Huronia)
          • External link opens in new tab or windowHuronia Museum / Ouendat Village

          Corgarff Cemetery




          External link opens in new tab or windowEast Corriehoul


          There are Coutts and McHardy gravestones in the cemetery above (located 2 km down the road from Milltown of Allargue at East Corriehoul, near St Machar's Chapel and the Allt Coire Tholl).



          Forbes Clan




          Clan Forbes Septs

          Bannerman, Berrie, Berry, Boyce, Boyes, Faubus, Fobes, Forbess, Forbis, Forbus, Forbush, Fordice, Fordyce, Furbush, Lumsden, Macouat, Macowatt, MacQuattie, MacWatt, Mechie, Mekie, Meldrum, Michie, Middleton, Walter, Walters, Walters, Watson, Watt, Watters, Wattie, and Watts



          Corgarff Castle Barracks


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          Interesting Facts

          • Many Midhurst families were inter-related, for example three McHardy sisters (Margaret, Isabel and Mary) came to Midhurst from the Corgarff area of Scotland (Margaret McHardy our family Matriarch was one of them)


          • Margaret McHardy married Duncan Coutts


          • Isabel McHardy married Charlie Wattie


          • Mary McHardy married John Farquharson


          • John Farquharson's sister Mary married a McHardy (after he died she married John Bonney)


          • James Coutts #0.2 (Duncan's son) married Mary Monteith


          • Mary Monteith's brother George married Margaret Coutts #0.5 (Jame's sister)


          • James Coutts (Duncan's brother who remained in Scotland) married Jane McHardy


          • Daisy Coutts #0.28 married Issac Carruthers


          • George Coutts #0.82 married Issac Carruther's sister, Gertrude


          • A common custom when naming a newborn child was to use a surname from a family relationship as a middle name, thus paying homage to those family ties


          • Some names related by marriage: Beath, Russell, Orrock, Wattie, Michie, Shellswell, Carruthers, Thompson, Finlay, Robertson, Patton


           

          Coutts Homestead 1956

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