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Isabel
Hardie (1788 - 1859)
Isabel Hardie
was born at "Broomie Knowe" in Saline Fife in 1788, where
she was baptised on 26 October 1788. She was the second child and
eldest daughter of John
Hardie and Isabella Cousin.
Some time before
1813 she was living in Tollbooth Church Parish in Edinburgh. It
was here on 12 March 1813 she married John Sands. John is
the fourth child and eldest son of David Sands and Margaret Rutherford.
He was born in Orwell, Kinross in 1780, where he was christened
on 2 Apr 1780.
Their marriage
certificate describes them as “Mr. John Sands, Wright [builder],
South Leith Parish, and Miss Isabel Hardie, Tolbooth Church Parish,
Daughter of Mr. John Hardie, Parish of Saline;” and further says
that “She has resided in Edinburgh upwards of six weeks preceding
the proclamation of Banns...”
After their
marriage, the couple most likely lived in Kinross. It was here that
their eight children were born
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David
Sands. Born 1814. Baptised 12 Jun 1814. Died 11 Sep
1881. Married Margaret Watt Smith on 2 Jun 1850 in Haddington,
East Lothian |
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Isabella
Sands. Born 1819. Baptised 28 Mar 1819. Married James
Galbraith. No Children |
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Margaret
Sands . Born 1821. Baptised 3 Jun 1821. |
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Marianne/Marrion
Sands. Born 1823. Baptised 18 May 1823. Married Charles
Smith. No Children |
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Janet
Hardie. Born 1825. Baptised 22 May 1825. |
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James Sands. |
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Helen
Sands. Born 1829. Baptised 9 Aug 1829. Married Walter
Galbraith |
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Jane/Jean
Sands. Born 1831. Baptised 7 Aug 1831. |
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Joan
Sands. Born 1827. Baptised 10 Jun 1827. Died 16 Dec 1849 |
John died on
19 Jun 1852. Isabel lived for a further 7 years, dying on 28 Sep
1859.
Of their children,
David
took over the Kinross grocery from his uncle Joseph
Hardie. [There is significant correspondance between this family
and John Hardie of Thornhill available in the Hardie Memorabilia
at the Historic New Orleans Collection]. James
was a farmer, he married in Ireland. Helen married Walter Galbraith
[Again material about them and their family is available in the
New Orleans Collection].
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