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"TWEEDIE. The Tweedies were an old Peeblesshire family, and, according to a favorite mythic story, the first of the name was the child of a species of water spirit or genius of the Tweed, hence their name (Chambers, Picture of Scotland, i, p. 190). Unfortunately for the truth of this story the name is derived from the lands of Tweedie in the parish of Stonehouse, Lanarkshire. Finlay de Twydyn of Lanarkshire rendered homage in 1296 (Bain, n, p. 202), and Watere de Twydi was juror on an inquest at Lanark, 1303 (Bain, n, p. 345). Roger, son of Finlay of Twydyn, had a charter of the house and lands of Drumelzier, c. 1320 (Hay, 8). After possessing the lands and barony for fully three hundred years the familylost them in the reign of Charles i. William Tuedin received a gift from Robert i of some tenements in Stirling [sic, Skirling] which had been forfeited by Gilbert Lindsay (RMS., i, App. n, 674). In 1362 there is mention of payment of nine merks yearly due from the lands of Hopkelloche by James of Tuedi and his heirs (RMS., i, 130). William de Twidy, a charter witness, 1370 (RHM., n, p. 89). James of Twedy, deputy for Joneta de Graham, lady of Walchtone, 1389 (ibid., n, 189), is doubtless the James of Twedy who witnessed a charter at Dalkeith in 1390 (Edmonstone, p. 78). Walter of Twedy granted an annual rent from the lands of Drumelzier, 1426 (Hay, 10), Thomas Twedye held a tenement in Irvine, 1542 (Irvine, i, p. 191). Elizabeth Twedy held a tenement in Glasgow, 1550 (Protocols, i), and Magister Thomas Tueadie was commissary of Aberdeen, 1583 (Aboyne, p. 159). The Tweedies had the reputation of being a savage race and at the close of 1592 they reverted to their true character. "We learn from an entry in the Record that they had perpetrated quite as deliberate a murder as that committed by them less than two years previously near the castle of Neidpath. Their victim... was one of the Geddesses, with whom they were at feud, and the scene of the atrocity was at a blacksmith's door in the Cowgate of Edinburgh... The complaint states that 'it is not unknawne how mony slum liters have been committit upon them by James Twedy of Drummelzeair and his friends' ... and now he has committed the barbarous murder of the said James Geddes within the burgh of Edinburgh... having by means of spies, watched the said Laird of Glenhegdon, near his lodgings, found he was in the Cowgait at David Lindsay's buith shoeing his horse, on the 29th of December" (Chambers, History of Peeblesshire, p. 119). Pennecuik in 1715 described the Tweedies of Drummelzier as "a powerful and domineering family now quite extinct" (Description of Tweeddale, p. 253-254). Tuedy 1560, Tuedye 1627, Tueidie and Tweeddy 1684, Tueydie 1631, Twedie 1608, Tweedy 1455, Tweiddy 1682; Tuedie, Tuedv, Tueedie, Twyddie. "_{(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)}

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