Thanks for this. Very interested in your DNA testing. If you have done Y111 have you joined the Eadie name page on FTDNA? If you have not yet joined we would be glad to have you. My Eadie's have been in Northern Ireland since around the start of the plantation. I have completed BIGY 700 and my DNA mainly matches Campbells - I have no Gordon matches at all. The matches with the Campbells seem to be around the 1400 date for the mutation so if you are getting Campbell matches it would be really interesting to compare notes. You will have seen the Campbell Eadie marriage in the Red Book of Scotland I assume? If you Google Campbell of Smiddiegreen it will allow you to view this -
http://redbookofscotland.co.uk/campbell-of-smiddiegreen Smiddiegreen is near St. Andrews. St.Andrews is where Andro Aedie was pricipal of the Theological college there before getting thrown out for his association with George Montgomery who he visited in Ireland in 1606. They married into the Forbes and Setons. There are a lot of them buried in St. Nicolas Church in Aberdeen. The Eadie Coat of Arms is alongside the Skene Coat of Arms at Skene house. This comes from a Aberdeen Council document
Sir George Skene, merchant and later, Provost of Aberdeen, took possession of the building 9 April 1669. Skene himself was born in 1619, his mother and father died when he was young and his elder brother David took him to Poland where he was apprenticed to George Aedie, an Aberdonian merchant in Danzick. It was there that he made his money and returned to Aberdeen, in 1665, where he bought the lands of Wester Fintray and Rubislaw. He was Provost for 9 years between 1676-1678. He was knighted in 1681 after being part of Aberdeen's delegation to James, Duke of York. George never married and so his lands and houses passed to his nephews. Above the doorway of the house is a finely decorated carved panel. This incorporates the arms of Skene himself. The arms are flanked on either side by the initials G and S. The arms are composed of three skeins, or dirks, each having a wolf's head on their points. The arms are derived from an (almost certainly mythical) incident in Skene's life in which it is said that he killed a wolf which was threatening the life of then King in the Stocket forest. The arms also comprise his motto: 'Gratis a Deo Data'. After the Skene family the house passed into the hands of the Aedie family. Have a look at a photo of it on this site -
https://humphrysfamilytree.com/Aedie/david.html#arms There are a number of books on the Eadies as merchants - Holland, Poland, Lithuania etc. My ancestor Hugh Eadie was a merchant who ended up at the Siege of Derry. You can still see his gravestone at St. Columbs cathedral in the city. There are a number of books on the Eadie's -
https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G002072.pdf gives a lot of details for example. Andro Aedie wrote a letter to King James that is still available. If you look at the Minute Books of Londonderry you will be able to see Hugh Eadies signature on the minutes, his election as an Alderman and his death are all recorded. His signature and thumbprint is on the survivors of the siege document in the museum in St. Columbs. He is listed as an Alderman on the letter of support to King William after his attempted assasination. If you can get a copy of the Eadie of Dunblane book it will also be interesting for you -
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Family_from_Dunblane.html?id=-gi-HAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Hope this helps
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