150th Anniversary in Canada
(click on each link below)
2006 (79th Coutts Reunion) Invitation
2006-06-12 (79th Coutts Reunion) Map
2006-12-23 (79th Coutts Reunion) DVD/Video
Simcoe County
Original Location in Scotland
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.
"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

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 | Coutts | 1844-07-01 | 1922-08-15 |
0.2 | James | Coutts | 1846-02-15 | 1919-12-06 |
0.3 | Jane | Coutts | 1848-01-01 | 1924-??-?? |
0.4 | Duncan | Coutts | 1850-09-20 | 1888-??-?? |
0.5 | Margaret | Coutts | 1852-04-07 | 1920-??-?? |
0.6 | Euphemia | Coutts | 1855-01-29 | 1933-04-22 |
0.7 | Charles | Coutts | 1857-02-27 | 1935-10-18 |
0.8 | George | Coutts | 1861-05-25 | 1938-05-26 |

Reunion Notices
(click on each link below)
2018 (91st Annual Coutts Reunion)
2017 (90th Annual Coutts Reunion)
2016 (89th Annual Coutts Reunion)
2015 (88th Annual Coutts Reunion; FaceBook)
2014 (87th Annual Coutts Reunion; FaceBook)
2013 (86th Annual Coutts Reunion; Evite)
2012 (85th Annual Coutts Reunion; Evite)
2011 (84th Annual Coutts Reunion)
2010 (83rd Annual Coutts Reunion)
2009 (82nd Annual Coutts Reunion)
2008 (81st Annual Coutts Reunion)
2007 (80th Annual Coutts Reunion)
1867 UK Survey: Allargue / Milltown
1867 UK Survey: East Corriehoul Grave Yard
1867 UK Survey: Coutts's Stone / Corgarff Castle
1869 UK Survey: Corgarff / Strathdon
1881 Canada Survey: Vespra Twp / D. Coutts
Geographical-Historical Lot20 Con2 Vespra
1906 Ontario / UofT Survey: Huron Village, Site 19, Vespra Twp
Allargue House (Corgarff, Scotland)
Military Road (Corgarff, Scotland)
Blairgowrie / Corgarff / Inverness
Corgarff Castle
Corriehoul Cemetery
Clan Farquharson
Invercauld Estate
Clan Forbes
McHardy of Ordachoy
Upper Donside Distilleries & Smugglers
Bloody Corgarff History
Cairngorms National Park
Springwater Provincial Park
Simcoe County Museum
Township of Springwater
Wendake (Huronia)
Huronia Museum / Ouendat Village
Corgarff Cemetery
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
• 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
(100th Anniversary in Canada)