Earliest Recorded Tweedies
John de Tuedy 1249. Owner of lands on the river Tweed. (Charter Alexander III, Inquisit. Generales) Fynlaw de Twydyn 1296 ‘del Comte de Lanarke’. Swore fealty to King Edward I of England. (Ragman Roll, Origin. Paroch., i., 204, Original Tweedie Charters and Writs) Hugo de Twedyn 1311. An Archer in the garrison of Castle of Bothville. (Chronic. Mem. Vol iii. 408.) Roger de Twydyn ‘the son of Fynlaw de Twydyn’. Charter from Robert the Bruce, 12th June 1325. First Baron of Drummelzier, married a daughter of Lawrence Fraser of Drummelzier. (Original Tweedie Charters and Writs) William de Twedy Baron of Drummelzier in 1331. 'son of Roger, the son of Finlay del Twydyn'. Probably married Lady Agnes Dunbar, the celebrated Black Agnes of Sir Walter Scott's 'Tales of a Grandfather'. (Robertson's Index) James Tuedy Baron of Drummelzier 1351-1360. Married his cousin, daughter of Sir James Douglas and Lady Agnes Dunbar c1351. (Original Tweedie Charters and Writs) Walter de Tuedy Baron of Drummelzier. Vice Comes de Peblis in 1373. Named in proceedings in Exchequer Rolls in 1388. (Original Tweedie Charters and Writs) James Tuedy Baron of Drummelzier. Married his cousin Katherine of Caverhyll in 1422. They had three sons and one daughter. (Original Tweedie Charters and Writs) Walter Tweedie Baron of Drummelzier and from whom the Drummelzier family descends.Richard Twedy The birth of Richard c1460 in (Boreham Wood) Essex, the son of 'George Twedye who came out of Scotland from the House called Drumelzier'. Richard died at Stock, Essex in 1522. |
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