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Coutts-McHardy Information

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The Coutts Reunion organizing committee is staffed by volunteers and is funded by an endowment to continue the "annual family get together" in honour of family members past to present from all regions of Canada and the world.  To date we have produced two books and an online family tree (database). 

The committee has three executives (these positions are open to nominations each year):   
• President • Treasurer • Sports

The official coat of arms shown here belongs to an unrelated Coutts family (associated with the External link opens in new tab or windowCoutts Bank in London England UK).  The British royal family often sought financial advice from Coutts.  The External link opens in new tab or window1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (daugher of banker Thomas Coutts) was one of the wealthiest women in England.  In 1890 her husband William Burdett-Coutts had a village in Alberta Canada named in honour of his wife's family External link opens in new tab or windowCoutts. 



Scotland

Canada

External link opens in new tab or windowColumnCoutts' Stone

  • Interesting Facts from Scotland in PDF form (click on links below)

External link opens in new tab or window1867 UK Survey: Allargue / Milltown
External link opens in new tab or window1867 UK Survey: East Corriehoul
External link opens in new tab or window1867 UK Survey: Coutts's Stone
External link opens in new tab or window1869 UK Survey: Corgarff / Strathdon
External link opens in new tab or windowUpper Donside Whisky & Smugglers
External link opens in new tab or windowBloody Corgarff History
External link opens in new tab or window2011 Cairngorms National Park Map
External link opens in new tab or window2026 Cairngorms SnowRoads Map

  • Interesting Scottish websites (click on links below)

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 windowScotlands Places (Online Research)
External link opens in new tab or windowCairngorms National Park (SnowRoads Scenic Route)

  • Clan Farquharson (click on links below)

External link opens in new tab or windowClan Farquharson
External link opens in new tab or windowClan Farquharson Septs & Associated Families
External link opens in new tab or windowInvercauld Estate

  • Clan Forbes (click on links below)

External link opens in new tab or windowClan Forbes
External link opens in new tab or windowClan Forbes Septs & Associated Families
External link opens in new tab or windowMcHardy of Ordachoy

  • Corgarff Cemetery on A939 (click on link below)

Near the River Don there are Coutts and McHardy gravestones located in the External link opens in new tab or windowCorgarff Cemetery (2 km down the road from Milltown of Allargue at East Corriehoul, near St Machar's Chapel and the Allt Coire Tholl).


• Cock Bridge on A939 (click on link below)

In this location (External link opens in new tab or windowCock Bridge) on the A939 "SnowRoads" scenic route you are nearby to:

• Corgarff Castle

• Allargue House (Clan Farquharson)

• Milltown (of Allargue House) & Coutts Croft House

• Corgarff Cemetery


North over Allargue Hill on A939 (Old Military Rd) brings you to Tomintoul, a charming village known as the highest settlement in the Scottish Highlands.  East on A944 brings you to Strathdon.  South on A939 brings you towards Ballater and from there A93 takes you to Braemar.


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  • Interesting Facts from Canada in PDF form (click on links below)
External link opens in new tab or window1856 Vespra Twp "Buy & Sell" record for D. Coutts
External link opens in new tab or window1881 Canada Survey: D. Coutts
External link opens in new tab or windowMidhurst / Lot20 Con2 Vespra Twp
External link opens in new tab or window1906 ON / UofT Survey: Huron Site 19
External link opens in new tab or window2026 Map of Homestead Location in Simcoe County

  • Interesting Canada websites (click on links below)

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 (formerly Flos & Vespra Twp)
External link opens in new tab or windowWendake (Huronia)
External link opens in new tab or windowHuronia Museum / Ouendat Village

  • Family connections in Canada

Many Midhurst families were inter-related.  Three McHardy sisters (External link opens in new tab or windowMargaret, Isabel and Mary) came to Canada from Scotland (Margaret McHardy was our family Matriarch).
• Margaret McHardy married Duncan E. Coutts
• Isabel McHardy married Charlie Wattie
• Mary McHardy married John Farquharson
External link opens in new tab or windowMcHardy Sisters in Canada 

• John Farquharson's sister Mary married a McHardy (after he died she married John Bonney)
• James Coutts #0.2 (Duncan Sr's son) married Mary Monteith
• Mary Monteith's brother George married Margaret Coutts #0.5 (Jame's sister)
• James Coutts (Duncan Sr's brother who remained in Scotland) married Jane McHardy
• Daisy Coutts #0.28 married Issac Carruthers
• George D. Coutts Jr. #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, Shelswell, Carruthers, Thompson, Finlay, Robertson, Patton


  • Duncan E. Coutts & Margaret McHardy (click on link below)

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 Clan Farquharson of Invercauld Estate, Braemar, Aberdeenshire.  Two additional children were External link opens in new tab or windowborn in Canada before their mother Margaret died of appendicitis in 1863.

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

The McHardy sisters originally were tenants on property owned by the Clan Forbes of Castle Newe and Edinglassie, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire.  Their descendants were often named in part honouring Clan Forbes and it's Septs.

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


IDForename SurnameBirthDeath
0.0Duncan E.  Sr.   (Patriarch)Coutts18141887
0.0Margaret  Sr.   (Matriarch)McHardy18171863
0.1AlexanderCoutts18441922
0.2JamesCoutts18461919
0.3JaneCoutts18481924
0.4Duncan  Jr.Coutts18501888
0.5Margaret  Jr.Coutts18521920
0.6EuphemiaCoutts18551933
0.7CharlesCoutts18571935
0.8George M. Sr.Coutts18611938

  • External link opens in new tab or window• Scotland to Canada • 1856

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