HARVEY

There are 10 generations of the direct ancestral line for HARVEYs shown, back to 1631 and down to John Roberton HARVEY who was born in 1920. These details are from a large family tree drawn up by Thomas Barnett Grierson HARVEY in 1938, of which several family members have their own copies but added to in relation to their own family line.

Please note that there are a lot of inter-marriages, such as James, the second son of Thomas HARVIE and Margaret BAUCHOP, had a daughter Mary who married John GOURLAY and their daughter Helen Harvie GOURLAY married William 3 HARVEY. These will be identifed as more pages are added. There are also intermarriages with other branches including MORRISON and HARVIE and MACFARLANE and GOURLAY.

The HARVEYs started distilling whiskey probably in the early 1700s in the area of Hill of Balgair. From there they moved to Glasgow and there are around six distillieries associated with them, some including inter-marriages with MACFARLANE and GOURLAY. However it was William 4 (1849- 1936) who, with his brothers, founded BRUICHLADDICH distillery in Islay, which despite traumas earlier in the 20th century, still functions very well and successfully today. See https://www.bruichladdich.com for details about the distillery now.

A final quick comment- yes there is a William 2, but not in the direct line of descent!

Click for: homepage and index; all-HARVEY family page; early HARVIEs; HARVEY at Bruichladdich ; ROBERTON; BLOCK; RUDD. John Harvey of Garthamlock will.

John HARVIE (ca 1631- ) married Janet RHENY and they had one son John

John HARVIE (ca 1660- 1740) had three sons: John, Willam and Andrew

John HARVIE (ca 1690- 17xx) on 5 Aug 1721 married Helen RISK (1696-1726) and they had two sons: Thomasand John

Thomas HARVIE (ca 1723- 1789) born Hill of Balgair on 2 Jan 1747 married Margaret BAUCHOP (ca 1723- 1795) and they had seven children: John, James, Helen, Janet, Thomas, Mary and William.

John HARVIE (1748-1817) on 15 April 1780 married Marion MORRISON (1752- 1811) and they had eight children: Elizabeth, Margaret, Marion, John*, Thomas, William 1, James, Robert.

William 1 HARVEY (1793-1855) on 20 July 11820 married Rebecca BARNETT (1797- 1863) and they had thirteen children: John, William 3, Jane, James, Marion, Rebecca Barnett, Robert, Marion Elizabeth, Barnett, John Mitchell, Margaret, Thomas and Albert.

William 3 HARVEY (1822- 1864) on 1 Dec 1848 married Helen Harvey GOURLAY (1821-1877) and they had six children:  William 4, John Gourlay, James, Mary, Rebecca Barnett and Robert.

William 4 HARVEY (1849- 1936) on 21 Feb 1882 married Ellen Margueretta ROBERTON (1853- 1939) and they had eight children:  William Barnett, James [Hoots], Mary Darling, Helen Gourlay, Thomas Rutherford [Rudd], Ronald Islay, Veronica [Ron] and Kenneth Roberton [Binks]

James [Hoots] HARVEY (1884- 1952) in 1909 married Phyllis [Purr] BLOCK (1884- 1970) and they had seven children: Joy Catherine, Veronica JR [Ronnie], Jill Margaret, Mary Roberton [died young], John Roberton, David James Roberton, William Jeffrey Roberton.

*For John’s will click will of John HARVEY of Garthamlock