Glossary of Terms and
BibliographyThe McHardy Family of Corryhoul Website
Glossary of Terms and
Bibliography
In preparing this website project I came accross a number of terms I was unfamiliar with. I have written these below with a simple explanation in the hope they are of some help in making sense of some of the pages. I have also listed the sources of the books used in the creation of this website so you can locate them for your own use.
Click on to hyperlinks below to go to the following on this page :-
Bailey (Bailze) - the upper or lower court of a castle.
Disponed - Legal term, made over or conveyed to another.
Executer - someone appointed to administer the moveable (non-hereditery) property of the deceased. Usually appointed in a will (executer nominate) though this appointment must be confirmed by the relevany court. If the deceased has died intestate then the executer (ececuter dative) will be appointed and confirmed by the court.
Failzie - failure, non performance of an obligation.
Freeholder - before 1832 only a tiny minority of Scots men (and no women) elected representatives to Parliament. Representatives of the counties were elected by freeholders, who were men who owned land or other heritable property in that county above a certain value.
German - (used in combination) having the same parents as oneself eg. brother german; or having a parent that is a brother or sister of either eg. cousin german.
March - a boundary.
Oxgang - as much land as could be tilled by the use of an ox.
Portioner - one who possesses part of a property which had been originally divided among co-heirs. The proprieter of a small estate or piece of land once part of a larger estate.
Sasine - the act or procedure of giving possession of fuedal property.
Sasine, Instrument of - the deed or document recording the transfer of property.
Shieling - a high or remote summer pasture where temporary homes are built.
Tack - a tenancy was usually constituted by a document known as a tack (a lease).
Tacksman - a chief tenant who leased the land directly from the landowner and sublet it to lesser tenants.
Testament - the records of the confirmation of executers are testaments. If there is a will they are known as testament-testamentar, and if there is no will testament-dative.
Terce - the right of a widow to life-rent of one third of her husband's heritable estate, if no other provision has been made for her.
Vassal - a person who holds heritable property in feu from a superior.
Wadset - a contract under which the lender got actual possession of certain lands, and continued to occupy them, virtually as proprietor, until the money was repaid, sometimes after generations had passed.
Quite a few books had to be looked at in the preparation of
this website. The ones which make mention of the McHardy
family of Corryhoul are marked with a small red bullet like this 
. Here they
are :-
Aberdeen Journals Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, 1911, Aberdeen Daily Journal.
A Muster Roll of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Army 1745-46, Editors Alistair Livingstone of Bachuil, Christian W H Aikman, and Betty Stuart Hart, Aberdeen University Press 1984. ISBN 0 08 0303854.
Aberdeenshire Epitaphs and Inscriptions,
by Andrew Jervise, Edmonton & Douglas 1875.
Clan Mackintosh; compiled by Alan McNie, Cascade Publishing Company, Jedburgh, Scotland.
Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations 1650 - 1775, by David Dobson, Geneological Publishing Company Inc., Baltimore, USA, 1984.
Don: A Poem with Notes; by Charles Dawson Schoolmaster of Kemnay, Aberdeen 1805, Reprinted by A. Brown & Co, 1905
Donside, by Alex Inkson McConnochie, Aberdeenshire Classics, Reprinted from the original 1900 edition by James G. Bisset, Aberdeen, 1985. ISBN 0-948246-01-04.
Excavations at the Doune of Invernochty, by W. Douglas Simpson, M.A., D.Litt., F.S.A Scot.
General Conditions and Regulations fixed by Sir Charles Forbes of Newe and Edinglassie, Baronet, for the letting of his lands in the District of Strathdon 18__. University of Aberdeen, Special Collections Library.
Fairburn's Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland., a New Edition Revised and Brought Down to the Present Date by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, in two volumes, Vol 1., T.C. & E.C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1892.
Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, The Succession of Ministers of the Church of Scotland from the reformation, by Hew Scott D.D., New Edition, Vol VI, Synods of Aberdeen & Moray, Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, Tweedale Court 1926.
General Conditions and Regulations fixed by Sir Charles Forbes of Newe and Edinglassie, Baronet, for the letting of his lands in the District of Strathdon 18__. University of Aberdeen,
Gordon - An Illustrated Architectural Guide, by Ian Shepherd, The Rutland Press, 1994. ISBN 1 873190 11 5.
Historical Papers 1699-1750 Relating to the Jacobite Period, Edited by Colonel James Allardyce, LL.D., Volume First, Aberdeen. Printed by the New Spalding Club MDCCCXCV.
Ian Roy of Skellater, A Scottish Soldier of Fortune, Being the Life of General John Forbes of the Portuguese Army, by James Niel, M.D., D. Wylie and Son 1902.
Jacobites of Aberdeenshire and Banffshire in the Rising of 1715, by Alister & Henrietta Taylor, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London 1934.
Jacobites of Aberdeenshire and Banffshire in the 45, by Alister & Henrietta Taylor, Milne & Hutcheon, Aberdeen 1928.
Kildrummy and Glenbuchat Castles - Ministry of Works Official Guide-book, by W. Douglas Simpson, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Edinburgh, 1957.
List of Freeholders of the County of Aberdeen - Standing on the Old Roll, and of The Electors, printed by D. Chalmers & Co, Adelphi Court, Aberdeen 1838.
Memoir of the Life and Services of Admiral J. B. B. McHardy
with a short account of his more immediate ancestors and
descendants including Bunch, Munnings, Hill, Lees, Byde, Robinson,
Jones, Mauldin, &c., Compiled and Printed for
Private Circulation Only among Members of the Family. 1894.
My Father the Bagpiper - A simple tale about a man of
simple tastes, by Edith Paterson (nee MacHardy),
Privately Printed 1983
Ord's Bothy Songs and Ballads of Aberdeen, Banff & Moray, Angus and the Mearns, with a new introduction by Alexander Fenton, John Donald Publishers Limited, Edinburgh, Reprinted 1995 from an original edition of 1930.
Pine Trees in the Sky, by Jean Cantlie
Stewart, Scottish Cultural Press, Edinburgh, 1998. ISBN 1 898218
97 8.
Records of Invercauld 1547 - 1828,
edited by The Rev. John Grant Michie, Minister of Dinnet, Printed
for the New Spalding Club, Aberdeen MCMI.
Records of the Meeting of the Exercise of Alford MDCLXII - MDCLXXXVIII, Edited by the Reverend Thomas Bell, Minister of Keig and Clerk to the Prsebetery of Alford and to the Synod of Aberdeen, Printed by the New Spalding Club, MDCCCXCVII.
Royal Valley - The Story of the Aberdeenshire Dee, by Fenton Wyness, Alex P. Reid & Son, Market Street, Aberdeen, 1968.
Rules and Regulations of the Lonach Highland and Friendly Society, D. Chalmers, Adelphi Court, Aberdeen 1825.
Scotland 100 Years Ago, first published by The Religious Tract Society. This edition published 1994 by Bracken Books, an imprint of Studio Editions Ltd, Princess House, 50 Eastcastle Street, London W1N 7AP.
A Scottish Endings - Writings on Death, Compiled by Andrew Martin, Published by National Museums of Scotland, 1996, ISBN 0 948636 86 6
Stray Memories of Strathdon, by Charles
Christie, Privately Printed 1938.
Surnames of the United Kingdom, A Concise Etymological Dictionary, by Henry Harrison, Vol.1., The Eaton Press, 190 Ebury Street, S.W. 1912.
The Chapel at Tornahaish, by Alisdair Roberts, published in Deeside Field, ISBN 0 9507673 3 6.
The Clan Mackintosh and The Clan Chattan, by Margaret Mackintosh of Mackintosh, revised by Lachlan Mackintosh of Mackintosh, 30th Chief of Mackintosh, First published by W & A.K. Johnstone Ltd., 1948, Revised edition published by Macdonald Publishers, Edgefield Road, Loanhead, Midlothian EH20 9SY.
The Commissariat Record of
Aberdeen, Register of Testaments 1715-1800, Edited
by John McLeod, The Scottish Record Society 1899.
The Donean Tourist- giving an account of the Battles,
Castles, Gentleman's Seats, Families, with their origin, armorial
ensigns, badges of distinction, by Alexander Laing,
J. Booth Junr. 1828.
The Earldom of Mar - Aberdeen Universities Studies No.124, by W. Douglas Simpson, Aberdeen University Press, MCMXLIX.
The Forty-Five - The Last Jacobite Rebellion, Michael Hook & Walter Ross, The National Library of Scotland, HMSO, Edinburgh, 1995. ISBN 0 11 4955721 S
The Geology of Auchernach, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, by various, Milne and Hutchison, Aberdeen, 1930.
The House of Forbes, edited by Alister & Henrietta Tayler, 3rd Spalding Club, Aberdeen MCMXXXVII.
The Long
Pathway, by Denis McLean, William Collins
Ltd PO Box 1 Auckland, 1986.
The Lordship of Strathavon - Tomintoul under the
Gordons, by Victor Gaffney, printed for the Third
Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1960.
The Land O'Lonach, by Ron Winram,
Adelphi Press, Aberdeen, 1986.
The Making of Scotch Whisky - A History of the Scotch Whisky Distilling Industry, by Michael s. Moss & John R. Hume, James & James, Edinburgh 1981. ISBN 0-907383-00-9.
The New Statistical Accoun of Scotland, by the Ministers of Respective Parishes, under Superintendence of a Committee of the Society for the benefits of the sons and daughters of the Clergy, Vol XII, Aberdeen, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, MDCCXLV.
The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland AD 1546 - 1580, Edited by John Maitland Thomson M.A. Advocat, published by the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, Under Direction of the Deputy Clerk Register of Scotland, H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh 1886.
The Scottish Macs and their Derivation and Origin, by James B. Johnston, M.A., B.D., F.R. Hist. S.,Alexander Gardner, Paisley, 1922.
The Scottish Thesaurus, Edited by Iseabail Macleod etc., Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen, 1990, ISBN 0 08 036582 5.
The Surnames of Scotland, Their Origin Meaning, and History, by George F. Black, Ph.D., Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, The New York Public Library, 1962. ISBN 0-87104-172-3.
The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland with the Arms of the Chiefs Vol II, by W. & A.K. Johnston Ltd, Edinburgh and London, MCMVI.
The Queen's Scotland - The Eastern Counties, by Nigel Tranter, Hodder & Stoughton, 1972. ISBN 0 340 16462 X.
Tracing your Scottish Ancestors - A Guide to Ancestry Research in the Scottish Record Office, Cecil Sinclair, Scottish Record Office, HMSO, Edinburgh, 1990. ISBN 0-11-494118-1.
Valuation Roll of the County of Aberdeen for the year
ending Whitsunday 1860, made up by virtue of the Act 17th and 18th
Victoria, CAP.91. Donald Lamont and John Fimister, Surveyors of
Taxes, Aberdeen, Assessors. Printed by John Avery,
"Northern Advertiser" Office, 7 St. Catherines Wynd,
Union Street, Aberdeen 1860.
Valuation Roll of the County of Aberdeen for the year
ending Whitsunday, 1917, Printed and Published by G.
Cornwall and Sons, Castle Street, Aberdeen, 1916.