HUTTON, May ¹

   Other names for May were HARDIE, Margaret and HEATON, Margaret.²

  General Notes:

Old Parish Register
Caputh Parish Perthshire
Baptisms

"1776
Hutton
19 May Joseph Hutton in Wester Caputh had a child baptised May" ³

May married Peter HARDIE of Dunkeld, Weaver and Musician, son of Richard HARDIE and Unknown, on 3 April 1795 in Caputh parish, Perthshire, Scotland.¹ (Peter HARDIE of Dunkeld, Weaver and Musician was born in 1777 in Perthshire, Scotland, died 13 August 1862 at 10.30 pm in Balledmund, Dowally Parish, Perthshire, Scotland and was buried in 1862 in Dowally Churchyard, Perthshire, Scotland ⁴.). The cause of his death was supposed paralysis.

  Marriage Notes:

Old Parish Register
Caputh Parish Perthshire
Marriages

"1795
Herdman and Hutton
Peter Herdman & May Hutton both in this Parish having been regularly proclaimed were married 3 April"

See note in main section on Herdman.

This marriage is included here, despite the difference of Herdiman and Hardie, because:

1] in the baptism of Charlotte Herdiman in 1805 in Dunkeld her father Peter Herdiman is recorded as being a musician

2] Peter Herdiman's wife's surname of 'Hutton' is very similar to 'Heaton', the name given in 1884 in William Hardie's death certificate by his son for the surname of William's mother and Peter's wife.

3] Both William Hardie and John Hardie had daughters named 'May'.

Any one of these reasons by itself would not amount to much, but together they deserve to be considered seriously.

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