Guthrie of Guthrie,
and Guthrie of Gaigie,
Guthrie of Taybank,
and Guthrie of Craigie.

~ Anonymous
A provincial couplet signifying the prominence of the Guthrie surname in Angus.

Charles Guthrie, 1st of Taybank, was the son of Alexander Guthrie (1706-1775), a merchant of Dundee, and Elizabeth Murray/Moray. He was born 22 August 1748 and baptized at Dundee, Angus, Scotland on the 24th. His paternal grandparents were James Guthrie (1669-1710) and Christian Scott, and his uncle James Guthrie, 1st Baron Craigie. Like the Guthries of Craigie, the Guthries of Taybank were descendants of the historical Guthries of that Ilk, but equally distant. Alexander Guthrie (1460-1513) 2nd Baron Guthrie, 3rd Kincaldrum and Margaret Lyon were his 8x great-grandparents.

On 6 June 1785, Charles Guthrie married Bridget Yeaman, a daughter of Patrick Yeaman of Blacklaw & Adamson, and Isobel Duncan.

Bridget Yeaman died 8 August 1820. Charles Guthrie of Taybank died 14 June 1827 at the age of 78. His remains were interred at Roodyards Cemetery in Dundee.

Their son, Charles Guthrie (1799-1870) inherited the property of Taybank with its house and grounds. He had married about two years before his father’s death to Margaret Kinlock, the marriage being recorded 30 Oct 1825 in her parish at Meigle, Perthshire and his on 31 Oct 1825 at Dundee, Angus. They had two daughters, Helen Kinloch Guthrie (1826-1887) and Anna Eliza Guthrie (1827-1839).

Like other Guthries before them, the Taybank line was caught without a male heir. Helen’s husband, Rev. Rodger Rawson Lingard, whom she married 25 Aug 1858 at Dundee, assumed the Guthrie surname in order that they could legally inherit. Thereafter the family were known by the name Lingard-Guthrie. On the death of a maternal aunt, Helen also inherited Carnoustie House and the Kinloch Estate, in Carnoustie.

READING and RESOURCES

The National Fruit Collection lists ‘Guthrie’s Late Green’, a dessert plum (prunus domestic L.) raised by Charles Guthrie, Taybank, Dundee, Scotland, about 1850. Oval oblong fruits with a medium firm very juicy flesh with a very sweet and rich flavor. A book, ‘The Plums of New York‘ is a monograph of the fruits of the region published by the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. It mentions the Guthrie Late plum.

The Ordinance Survey Name Books for Forfarshire (Angus), 1857-1861 list Taybank. A neat and well built house on the North Side of the Broughty Ferry Road and surrounded by a small portion of wooded and ornamental ground, the property and residence of Charles Guthrie, Esq.

The Burgess Roll of Dundee – 1513 to Present Lists a slew of Guthrie men, including Charles Guthrie Esq of Taybank.

Historical Tax Rolls – Male Servant Tax Rolls – Vol 19 – E326/5/19/84
28 June 1792 – James Guthrie of Craigie Esq – Servants: Robert Forbes, House Servant, John Kettle, Gardiner, No. Servants 2, Duty £2.10.0, 10% per 31 George III £0.5.0

28 June 1792 – Mr Charles Guthrie of Taybank – Servant: James Ferguson, Gardiner, No. Servants 1, Duty £1.5.0, 10% per 31 George III £0.2.6

BOOK: Chambers, Robert (1870) Popular Rhymes of Scotland. Digital Repository: Internet Archive
Rhymes Upon Families of Distinction
p.305
GUTHRIE
Guthrie o’ Guthrie,
Guthrie o’ Gaigie,
Guthrie o’ Taybank,
An’ Guthrie o’ Craigie
This rhyme refers to the respectable old Forfarshire family of Guthrie, in its main line and principal branches.

MAGAZINE: The Iron Duke: The Regimental Magazine of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding) Vol. IX No.24 Feb., 1933
p.38 – p.41
Major John Guthrie, 33rd Foot, 1799 to 1815
Biographical sketch of John Guthrie, eldest son of John Guthrie and Helen Yeaman, born in Dundee 24 Apr 1744. For three generations this branch of Guthries had been well-to-do merchants, first in Stockholm and later in Dundee. Mentions letters to his cousin, Charles Guthrie, of Taybank. He served as the godfather of Helen Kinloch Guthrie, Charles’ daughter. She served as hostess at his 73rd birthday party.

BOOK: Reid, Alan (1897) The Bards of Angus and Mearns – An Anthology of the Counties
Mentions the Guthrie rhyme and names a few famous/infamous Guthries.

DOCUMENTS: Register of Police Contracts No. 1
[Mawer’s Close] Disposition by the Trustees of the Forfarshire Permanent Property Investment Society and Mungo Ritchie, auctioneer in Dundee in favor of the Commissioners of Police for the Burgh of Dundee, dated 1872 … (First) All and Whole that tenement of land up and down high and laigh back and fore situated upon the east side of a Close commonly called Mawer’s Close upon the north side of the Murraygate Street of Dundee being part of the subjects disponed by Robert Crammond, maltman in Dundee to the deceased William Yeaman, merchant in Dundee thereafter belonging to Agnes Yeaman relict of the deceased Mr George Chapman late minister of the Gospel at Kinfauns, Helen Yeaman relict of the deceased Charles Guthrie, merchant in Dundee, Bridget Yeaman wife of Charles Guthrie of Taybank, merchant in Dundee, all three daughters of the deceased Patrick Yeaman, esquire of Blacklaw, sometime Provost of Dundee, James Small, merchant in Dundee, thereafter residing in Montrose the only son of the marriage between Dr Robert Small one of the Ministers of the Gospel in Dundee and the now deceased Jean Yeaman his wife, who was another daughter of the said Patrick Yeaman, John Sangster, Minister of the Gospel at Garvald eldest son of the marriage between Mr Henry Sangster, Minister of the Gospel and the now deceased Isabel Yeaman, his wife who was another daughter of the said Patrick Yeaman and Patrick Stewart, youngest, merchant in Perth, eldest son in life of the marriage between Patrick Stewart, merchant in Perth and the now deceased Janet Yeaman, his wife who was another daughter of the said Patrick Yeaman … who disponed the same to the deceased Thomas Webster,broker in Dundee who again disponed the same to George Webster, his son, sometime grocer in Dundee afterwards Ordnance storekeeper on the Island of Antigua and the deceased David Webster equally between them … (Second) All and Whole that tenement situated near the head and on the south side of the close commonly called Fenton’s Close on the west side of the Murraygate of Dundee with the toofall on the west end of the said tenement.  Bounded by Fenton’s Close on the north; by the subjects formerly belonging to Robert Herd, cabinetmaker in Dundee and hereinafter disponed on the east; by Young’s Close on the south; and by the passage leading from Fenton’s Close to the common road which leads to the public meadows of Dundee on the west part … (pages 100 to 114).

WEBSITE: A Brief History: The Church of the Holy Rood, Carnoustie
Includes information on Rev Roger Rowson Lingard and Helen Guthrie

WIKIPEDIA: Carnoustie

ARTICLE: Campbell, Jeannie (2023) International Women’s Day 2023: Four Trailblazing Female Pipers of the Past.
Includes a biographical sketch of Jean Oliphant Lingard Guthrie (born 1904), a daughter of Dr Roger Lingard Guthrie.

DOCUMENTS: Legal Records – ScotlandsPeople
Charles Guthrie – 9 Nov 1827 – Residing in Taybank – Forfar Sheriff Court – SC47/40/4
Charles Guthrie – 21 Nov 1870 – Esquire of Taybank near Dundee – Dundee Sheriff Court – SC45/31/23
Charles Monk Lingard Guthrie – 23 Jan 1894 – younger of Carnoustid, d. 25 Oct 1893 at Carnoustie, testate – Dundee Sheriff Court SC45/31/46
Helen Kinloch Guthrie – 30 Jun 1887 – or Lingard, of Carnoustie, wife of Rev. Roger Rowan Lingard Guthrie, Clerk and M.A., Taybank, Dundee, d. 10 Apr 1887 at Edinburgh, testate – Dundee Sheriff Court SC45/31/39
Roger Rowson Lingard Guthrie – 15 Feb 1909 – Revd. MA, Taybank, Dundee, d. 24 Oct 1908 at Dundee, testate – Dundee Sheriff Court SC45/34/17 and SC45/31/64