HARDIES IN SCOTTISH HISTORY
1296.
WILLIAM HARDY
In the year 1296 Edward I (longshanks)
king of England invaded Scotland with a massive army and after subduing the Scots,
he then forced over 2000 nobles, clergymen, and land owners to swear fealty to
him which for those who did not, meant the forfeit of their lands and death.
They had to put their names to a document known as the ragman rolls. One
of the names on this list is that of William Hardy, lanarkshire
landowner ( William Hardy – del counte de Lanark) and he happens to be the
earliest documented Hardie surname that
I am aware of.
(Page: 167 and Index Nominum
xxv. Ragman Rolls 1291-96 presented to the bannantyne club 1834 by Rt Hon
William Adam)
1566. William
Hardie
Recorded on the Scottish Privy Council
Register Vol 1 as Unicorn Persuivant. This is a Junior heraldic officer (page
480)
1599. James and Thomas
James Hardy and
Thomas Hardy his son with their accomplices did by theft of 4 oxen from Mr
Philip Nesbitt in Garvet worth
£30 each and for failing to appear this day as charged are to be denounced as
rebels and put to the horn
(Scottish
privy council register Vol 6. page 386.)
1605. George Hardie
James Douglas, William Dougles, William
Paterson and William Newbie along with 24 persons armed with jacks, lances and other weapons, came at night to the
persuers lands of Windintounrig and to the dwelling houses of george Hardie and
Johnne Armstrang their tenants and broke up the doors of the said houses and
wounded their wives with the guards of their swords and with rungs and batons
and (reft)? 20 old kye and oxen are here by put to the horn.
(Scottish
privy council register Vol 7 page 153/4)
1623. James Hardie
Edinburgh 10 July 1623, in the barony of
Halydane and town of Kelso to hold justice courts and try Robert Fala in Smailholme and Mary Dodis
his spouse,who have been lately apprehended for the murder of James Hardie in
Smailholme and are now warded in the tollbooth of Kelso.
(Scottish
privy council register Vol 13 )
1640. Andrew Hardie
In November 1640 Andrew Hardie of
Tollochshill while on his was into town was ambushed and murdered by William Dodds for reasons
unknown. The transcript from the justice proceedings on the case after Dodds
was captured read:- Edinburgh 20 august
1663 all 3 deputies present, William Dodds indicted for the murder of Andrew
Hardie of Tollochshill, having laid
in wait for him near his house on his way to Edr (possibly Edinburgh)
and assaulted him with durk of which wound he died. Dodds having taken to horse and fled was declaired fugitive. On 2nd
October 1663 sentence was proscribed and read: William Dodds to be beheaded
and his movable goods to be encheat to
his majestys use.
(Page 68 Justiciary
Proceedings Vol 1 1861 - 69. W.G. Scot
Moncrieff 1905)
1864. William Hardie
Indictment for rebellion he is named under
EODEM DIE in court transcripts as charges against and reads:- William Hardie, tenant to the Lord
Torphichen, John Gilchrist, shoe maker in West Calder, William Nimmo, taylor
there, Adam Grier, and Malcolm Crawford there, for rising in rebellion and
being at the fight at pentland hills, declaired fugitives.
(Page 290 Justiciary
Proceedings Vol 1 1861 – 69. W.G.Scot Moncrieff 1905)
1685. Patrick Hardie
On the 6th June 1685, colonel John
Erskine of Carnock while on his quest for the presbyterian cause returned from
Holland with a regiment of foot. He landed at Cowall near Dunoon and was
accompanied ashore by six of his men one of whome was Patrick Hardie of
Falkirk.
(John Erskine of Carnocks
journal by Rev Walter Macleod . Page 125 + 128 )
1716. Andrew Hardy
After the failed Jacobite uprising of 1715, Andrew Hardy, vinter burgess of perth and a leutenant in the Jacobite army was forced to surrender.
( Note: This information is found in JACOBITES OF THE 15
by David Dobson)
1746. Carlo Hardie or Hardy
Jacobite
Prisoner of Edinburgh castle 17/3/1746.
( Prisoners of the 45 Vol 3 page 276)
1749 Hardy?
In
the history of every family name there will be some one who has taken part in
something which will tarnish it and in 1749, 3 years after the battle of
Culloden this was to happen.
Taken
from a collection of speeches, letters and journals relating to the affairs of
Prince Charles Ed Stuart by Rev Robert Forbes A.M., this is a paragraph
taken of a letter (dated April 11th
1749) from the Revd. John Skinner,at Longside in Aberdeenshire.
The
story of the plundering of my house take as follows
When
our meeting was burnt the officer of the dragoons came to my house in quest of me,
but mist me. After that I was often alarm’d, but never in danger until july 29th
that Hardy and 6 of Loudon’s regiment came to my house. I was that day at Rora baptising a child or
so, and came not home till pretty late when to my surprise I found 7 armed men
at my wife’s bedside who had lein in about 10 days before, and had not yet left
her bed. I ask’d the fellow Hardy,
what he wanted here, on which in great confusion he told me I was the king’s
prisoner and behov’d to go to Aberdeen.
This was Tuesday night, and I was oblig’d to go under two screw’d
bayonets to Mr Brown’s for a letter to Hardy to let me stay at my own
house till Friday. Brown, it seems (our
Presbyterian teacher ), was in the plot, and, as I’m inform’d, he and other two
of them had receiv’d Hardy with great kindness and hounded him out in
search of me. You may believe it was no
small mortification to me to apply to my enemy for a favour. But what could I do? It was my wifes condition that
prevail’d with me, not my own fears,
and I’m confident that had I been carry’d off that night, as they threaten’d, I
had lost her. While I was at Brown’s
the had packed up all my shirts and stockings, most of my books, with several
other bits of portable furniture, and 10 shillings sterling of money, and
carry’d it off to Brown’s where they deposited all as in a place of shelter.
Thus I was left naked except what was on my back, and Brown’s like a
good Christian and clergyman, resetted cheerfully all that the ruffians
plunder’d me of. Hardy went down
to pitsligo, wher he stay’d 12 days, and on his return, because I was a
missing, threaten’d to burn my house, wife, bairns and all, to which good
action Brown piously advis’d him. But
Providence disappointed all these and deliver’d me, etc.
Rev
Robert Forbes was to note in his journals of Hardy. This was a low mean fellow of whose doings I
have been informed by many. He lived in
Kintore and was exceedingly active in being guide to the red coats ( after
Culloden battle ) to discover the hiding places of the distressed gentlemen and
to show them the houses of reputed jacobites for pillaging. He it was who guided the party who seized
Mr. Gordon of Terperse. However, Hardy
at last became as much neglected and despised in his own country that he was
obliged to enlist as a recruit in the Dutch service.
( Page 259. 260.
LYON IN MOURNING Vol 2. 17 46 –
75 by Henry Paton. M.A. )
1820. Andrew Hardie
In the year 1820 there was another attempt to overthrow the government and install Scottish rule in Scotland by a group called the Scottish Radical Reform Movement. After several small armed skirmishes the movement was quickly crushed after being betrayed and set up. Out of 24 men who were captured, 21 were deported and 3 ring leaders, hanged and beheaded on the 8th of September 1820, one of whom was Andrew Hardie, a Glasgow weaver and today his name can be found on a commemoration plaque outside Stirling Castle and on an obelisk in Paisley cemetery in Renfrew.
1893. James Keir Hardie
A coal miner from the age of 11, James
Keir Hardie formed in 1893 the Independant Labour Party which was to
eventually become the British Labour Party.
1937. Agnes
Hardie
In 1918 in Glasgow legislation was
passed to legitimize women’s involvement as voters and candidates in
parlimentary elections . Agnes Hardie was the first woman MP in Glasgow in 1937. Out of 101 Glasgow MPs
returned from 1818 up until 1997 only
six were female.
1997. Lord Andrew
Rutherford Hardie
A graduate of Edinburgh University Lord
Hardie qualified as a solicitor in 1971, was appointed Queens council by 1985
and was the Lord Advocate for Scotland from 1997 – 2000.
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