The Descendants of Francis Coutts (b 1786) and Margaret Strachan

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The Coutts family are a sept of the Farquharson clan, a Highland clan in Scotland. Septs are families who have sworn allegiance to a particular Clan Chief. The name Coutts is common in the history of the clan. The Coutts family are associated with the Farquharson clan through the names Allan Coutts, James Coutts, and Donald Coutts.

Coutts is a common Aberdeenshire name, particularly in Upper Deeside. Its origin is thought to be territorial, as in of Coults, which lies in Glen Gairn, north of Ballater. The prominent family with this name was granted a Crown charter in 1433 in which they received land in Auchtercoul (Ochtercoull). This charter was granted in favour of William Coutts, his brother Alexander, and their cousins John and Alexander. Other notable persons of this name include William Coutts, provost of Montrose towards the end of the sixteenth century. A member of this family is believed to have founded the London merchant bank of this name.

By the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the name was common in Edinburgh. There is a wide a variation in the spelling of the name: Coittes, Cotis, Cottes, Cottis, Coutts, Cowtes, Cowtis, Kowtis, Coutes, Coutys, Cults. William Cultis was enrolled as a burgess of Aberdeen in 1531. The name Coates and Coats are also variant spelling of Coutts, but are sometimes listed as separate septs of Clan Farquharson. Coutts and its related names predates the surname Farquharson by a considerable period and its inclusion as a sept of the clan is on account of geographic proximity to Farquharson lands.

William Mess 1675	Anna Watson 1675
Margaret Ried 1720 to 1800	George Mess 1705
	Elspet Walker 1756 to 1842	George Mess II 1746 to 1832
		Isabella Russell Johnston 1794 to 1871	William Mess 1775 to 1860
Dorothy Connan 1811 to 1850	Thomas Gordon 1810 to 8 June 1875 Married Dorothy Connan on 10 April 1832 Aberdour, Graciehill. New Deer, Aberdeenshire
	Go under	Margaret Scroggie 1829 to 1907	George Mess 27 April 1819 to before 1873
Margaret Strachan 1782	Francis Coutts 1786 COU00023
			Alexander Mess Railway Shunter 1849 to 1930	Isabella Gordon 1850 to 1883
Bathia Gordon 1846	Dorothea Gordon 1838 to 1894	George Coutts 14 February 1814 to 6 May 1874 Married Dorothea Gordon on 19 October 1868 Shepherd, agricultural labourer Strathdon, Rathen, Aberdeenshire COU00022
		Go under
James Mess 1872	Isabella Mess 1874	Alexander Mess 1876		Mary A Mess 1878
	Bathia Coutts 2 February 1868 to 20 October 1949 Married James Bain, a stone cutter, in about 1895 Aberdeen, North Carolina COU00021	Thomas Gordon Coutts 22 September 1870 to 24 January 1937 Apprentice mason and then mason Married Maggie Mess in about 1900 New Pitsligo, Tyrie, Aberdeen COU00020	Margaret (“Maggie”) Mess 1880 to 1969 Aberdeen
	Thomas J C Bain (1896), Dorothy Gordon Bain (1898 to 1943), Edith Bain (1900)						The Maternal Coutts Family
		Violet (“Vi”) Coutts 18 January 1903 Married John McAndrew COU00035	Margaret (“Peg”) Coutts c 1908 Married John Duncan COU00034	Thomas (“Tom”) Coutts 29 November 1904 to 31 January 1976 Married Evelyn Gordon Coutts on 3 October 1932 Chemist Aberdeen COU00002	Evelyn Gordon Coutts 18 June 1907 to 28 March 1995 Aberdeen COU00003
		Gordon McAndrew	Raymond Duncan
				Thomas Gordon Coutts QC 1933 Aberdeen, Edinburgh COU00001	The Scott Family Winifred Scott 1935	Evelyn Margaret (“Eve”) Coutts 1938
						2 children
	Jennifer R Wilcock 1965	Julian Thomas Gordon Coutts 2 July 1962 to 1 July 2008 Edinburgh COU00036	Richard Farndale 1963 The Farndale Story The Wensleydale Line	Charlotte Coutts 1964
	Zoe Rachael Coutts 1992	Imogen Hannah Coutts 1995	James Martin Richard Farndale 1994	Sarah Louise Farndale 1997