Blaikie is a

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surname.

Etymology

Blaikie derives from "''blaik''" (adj.), a word in the

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language meaning black, plus the common

diminutive suffix ''"-ie"''. The ''Dictionar o the Scots Leid'' ("Dictionary of the Scots Language") says the etymology of ''"blaik"'' is: "''Blaik, a. .m.E. and ME. blake, ME. blaak(e, OE. blace, blaca, etc., declensional forms of blæc Blak a.Black.''".

Old records in Scotland

Into the 20th century the Blaikie surname name has been recorded in inextricably confused forms in Scottish parish, census and statutory records, often interchangeably with the spellings "'' Blackie''", "''Blakie''", "''Blaickie''", "''Blaikkie",'' "''Bleakie''", "''Blekie", "Bleckie" etc''. Nowadays, the spelling of surnames is more permanent and the various spellings are independent. The oldest surviving and digitally available old parish Kirk birth register ( Church of Scotland) entry for the "Blaikie" spelling of the name is dated 29 October 1598 in the parish of Prestonpans (near Edinburgh, Scotland) for Johnne Blaikie, son of Johnne Blaikie and Cristiane Finlaysoun. The oldest surviving and digitally available old parish Kirk registers deaths and burials ( Church of Scotland) entry for the "Blaikie" spelling of the name is recorded in the

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Parish of Edinburgh, Scotland for John Blaikie dated March 1658. The oldest surviving and digitally available old parish Kirk Banns and marriage register ( Church of Scotland) entries for the "Blaikie" spelling of the name are dated 7th February 1604 for Umphray Young and Janet Blaikie in Edinburgh, Scotland; 14th February 1604 for Hew Myller and Jeane Blaikie in South Leith Parish, Leith, Scotland; and two entries from the Parish of

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for Patrik Blaikie and Nanes Dobie on 1st January 1605 and Andro Mairteine and Cristiane Blaikie on 5th July 1606.

People

* Alan James Blaikie, (born 1972,

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, Inverclyde, Scotland)

retired footballer, best known for playing for Greenock Morton. * Professor Andrew Blaikie,

sociologist, Emeritus Professor at the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland. * Andrew Blaikie (born 1738 in Faughhill,

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, Scotland)

farmer and diarist. Author of "''A Scottish Farmer's Ride Through England 100 Years Ago"'' (posthumously published) in 1906. * Andrew Blaikie, early 19th century Scottish music collector of ballads and songs (an engraver by trade), in Paisley, Scotland. The Blaikie Manuscript of 17th century Scottish music is named after him. * Bill Blaikie (1951-2022), former Canadian MP and deputy leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in Canada. Bill Blaikie was of Scottish heritage. * Colin Fraser Blaikie (born 1941), Scotland international rugby union player. * Daniel Blaikie (born 1984), Canadian MP from the New Democratic Party (NDP), son of Bill Blaikie. * Duncan James Oke Blaikie (born 1975 in Hamilton, New Zealand), former professional Rugby Union player from New Zealand. Played for Highlanders RFC ( Dunedin, New Zealand). * F.M.B. Blaikie,

illustrator. Illustrated popular books in the early 20th century (1904 - 1914). * Francis Currie Blaikie (1771-1857), born

Holydean Halydean (pronounced "Hollydeen," and also spelled "Holydean") is a Scottish feudal Crown Barony and Lordship in Roxburghshire in the neighbourhood of Kelso, in the Borderlands of Scotland, along the River Tweed. This area along the Tweed is home ...

, Scotland.

agriculturist and land agent who wrote books about agriculture and made a career in England where he worked for Lord Chesterfield and the Earl of Leicester. * George Neil McLennan Blaikie (1915–1995), Australian author and journalist. * Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge, welfare worker, fund raiser, and wartime nurse. * Captain James Blaikie (1861-1930) Born Aberdeen, Scotland.

Captain in the United Kingdom Royal Navy. Naval officer during World War I. Captain of the SS Caledonia naval ship sunk by a German U-boat in the Mediterranean in 1916. Taken as a prisoner of war by the Germans. * James (Jim) Blaikie (born 1933 in North Leith Parish, Scotland)

author and poet. Author of ''"A Laddie Looks at Leith"'' and ''"A Laddie Looks at Leith Again".'' * James Blaikie (born circa 1725, Leith, Scotland) cabinet maker and carpenter to Sir James Clerk of Penicuik, working on the building of Penicuik House,

Midlothian Midlothian (; gd, Meadhan Lodainn) is a historic county, registration county, lieutenancy area and one of 32 council areas of Scotland used for local government. Midlothian lies in the east-central Lowlands, bordering the City of Edinburgh, ...

, Scotland between 1761 and 1770 and to Duke of Buccleuch during the building of Dalkeith Palace,

, Scotland. * James Armstrong Blaikie, (born in

, Scotland, d. 1940, Gore, Southland, New Zealand).

- New Zealand surveyor and foundation member of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. Blaikies Hill and Blaikies Creek in Rakiura (or

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), New Zealand are named after him. * James Ogilvie Blaikie of Craigiebuckler (1786-1836), Lord Provost of Aberdeen (1833-1836). *

John Blaikie John Blaikie (born 28 December 1973 in Hamilton, New Zealand) is a retired rugby union footballer. Playing career A hard-working, reliable lock, Blaikie attended Otago Boys' High School and quickly moved into the Otago provincial side. He ...

(born 1973) former professional Rugby Union player from New Zealand. Played for Highlanders RFC ( Dunedin, New Zealand) and FC Grenoble, France. *

John Arthur Blaikie John Arthur Blaikie (1849 – 25 December 1917) was an English poet and journalist, born in Poplar, Middlesex, and died in Kensington. Works *''Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets'' (1870), co-author Edmund Gosse *''Love's Victory'' (1890) *''A Sextet ...

(born 1849,

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, England), English poet and journalist. John Arthur's Blaikie's father's family were

. * John MacKay Blaikie (born 1837) Canadian shipbuilder from

Great Village, Nova Scotia Great Village is a rural community of approximately 500 people located along Trunk 2 and the north shore of Cobequid Bay in Colchester County, Nova Scotia. It is considered locally to incorporate the areas of Highland Village to the west and S ...

, Canada. *

Margaret Catherine Blaikie Margaret Catherine Blaikie (, Biggar; December 6, 1823 – July 25, 1915) was a Scottish temperance reformer. She became the long-standing president (for 29 years) of the Scottish Christian Union (a women's temperance group, independent but assoc ...

(1823 -1915),

temperance reformer * Dr. Patrick Blaikie M.D. R.N. (1791-1830), (born Aberdeen, Scotland)

medical Officer in the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. Served on

HMS Caledonia Five ships and three shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Caledonia'' after the Latin name for Scotland: Ships * was a 3-gun brig launched in 1807. She was captured by the Americans in 1812, and put into service as . ...

in 1812 and

HMS Undaunted Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Undaunted'': * was a 28-gun sixth rate, formerly the French storeship and prison ship ''La Bienvenue'', captured by the British in 1794 and sold in 1795. * HMS ''Undaunted'' was previously ...

in 1814. Later physician to the Lunatic Asylum in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was serving in HMS Undaunted when it carried

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from France to Elba in 1814. * Peter Macfarlane Blaikie (born 1937), Canadian lawyer and politician. * Piers MacLeod Blaikie (born 1942 in Helensburgh, Scotland),

geographer and scholar of international development and natural resources. Professor Emeritus at the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UEA), England. *

Rebecca Blaikie Rebecca Blaikie is a Canadian politician, who served as president of the New Democratic Party (NDP) from 2011 to 2016. She is the daughter of Bill Blaikie, a former NDP Member of Parliament from Winnipeg, deputy leader of the party, and provinci ...

(born 1978), Canadian MP and former president of the New Democratic Party (NDP), daughter of Bill Blaikie. * Robert Blair Blaikie (1906-1992), American businessman and Democrat politician in Manhattan, New York, and founder of insurance and surety firm Blaikie Group, in Manhattan, New York. His father Robert, a restaurateur, hailed from Edinburgh, Scotland and his mother, the former Mary Loughlin, from Ireland. * Robert William Chisholm Blaikie (1868 - 1952),

poet born in Edinburgh and raised in Bolshan,

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, Scotland. Author of ''"Lea-Rig Fancies: The Rhymes of a Farm Servant"'' (Brechin, 1900). * Sir Thomas Blaikie of Kingseat (1802-1861), Lord Provost of Aberdeen (1839-1847 and 1853-1856). * Thomas Blaikie (gardener) (1758-1838),

gardener who worked in Paris, France. Author of "''Diary of a Scotch Gardener at the French Court at the End of the Eighteenth Century''". *

Walter Biggar Blaikie Walter Biggar Blaikie FRSE DL LLD (23 November 1847 in Pilrig, Edinburgh – 3 May 1928) was a Scottish civil engineer, printer, historian and astronomer. Life Second of the seven recorded sons of Margaret Catherine Biggar and William Gard ...

(1847-1928),

civil engineer, printer, historian and astronomer. * William Garden Blaikie (1820-1899),

writer, biographer, and activist in the temperance movement.

Places

* Blaikies Creek, Southland, Rakiura (or

), New Zealand. * Blaikie Heugh (or Blaikie's Heugh or Bleakie Heugh), Papple,

, Scotland (site of the Balfour Monument). * Blaikie Heugh, at Hurker's Haven, near Partanhall, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, Scotland. * Blaikie's Hill, Galashiels, Scotland. * Blaikie's Hill, Rakiura (or

), New Zealand. * Blaikies Mews,

Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...

, Scotland. * Blaikie Mill, on the Aldbar estate,

Aberlemno Aberlemno ( gd, Obar Leamhnach, IPA: �opəɾˈʎɛunəx is a parish and small village in the Scottish council area of Angus. It is noted for three large carved Pictish stones (and one fragment) dating from the 7th and 8th centuries AD ( Histor ...

Parish, near Brechin,

, Scotland (listed 19th century woolen, spinning, corn and saw mill). * Blaikie Pit, at Hurker's Haven, near Partanhall, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, Scotland. * Blaikie Place, Kingseat, by Newmachar,

Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire ( sco, Aiberdeenshire; gd, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 Subdivisions of Scotland#council areas of Scotland, council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the County of Aberdeen which has substantially differe ...

, Scotland. * Blaikie's Quay, Aberdeen, Scotland. * Blaikie Road, Jamisontown,

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. * Blaikie Village, a croft and some dwelling houses near Ardlair Wood, near Tullynessle, by Alford,

, Scotland. * Blaikiewell,

Kirkton of Maryculter Maryculter () or Kirkton of Maryculter is a village in the Lower Deeside area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The River Dee separates it from the town of Peterculter, and the B979 road runs through Maryculter. Maryculter House Hotel lies slightly ...

, Deeside,

, Scotland.

Other

Blaikie may also refer to: *

Aberdeen Railway Co v Blaikie Brothers ''Aberdeen Railway Co v Blaikie Brothers'' (1854is a UK company law case. It concerns the fiduciary duty of loyalty, and in particular, the duty not to engage in self-dealing. It laid down a basic rule that if a director had an interest in a cor ...

, UK company law case. *

Agnes Blaikie (barque) ''Agnes Blaikie'' was a merchant ship chartered by the British government during the Crimean War for delivery of military cargoes and equipment to the army which was based in Balaklava. The vessel was presumably named in honour of the wife of t ...

, merchant ship chartered by the British government during the Crimean War. *

Attorney General of Quebec v. Blaikie (No. 1) ''Quebec (AG) v Blaikie (No 1)'', 9792 S.C.R. 1016 is a leading decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on language rights in the ''Constitution Act, 1867''. The Court held that the sections of Quebec's ''Charter of the French Language'' (better-k ...

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decision on language rights. *Beaton Blaikie, law firm,

Amherst Amherst may refer to: People * Amherst (surname), including a list of people with the name * Earl Amherst of Arracan in the East Indies, a title in the British Peerage; formerly ''Baron Amherst'' * Baron Amherst of Hackney of the City of London, ...

, Nova Scotia, Canada. *Blaikie & Alexander, 19th century Canadian accountants, brokers and estate agents based in Toronto, Canada. *Blaikie Brothers, 19th century iron foundry, in Aberdeen, Scotland. *Blaikie Manuscripts 1683 and 1692. These are music books from the 17th century in Glasgow. These two books were both owned by the Paisley music collector and engraver Andrew Blaikie in 1820s. The 1683 Blaikie Manuscript is now lost but was a Glasgow manuscript, once owned by Lady Katherine Boyd, daughter of William, first earl of Kilmarnock. Title lists were published e.g. by William Dauney, Ancient Scottish Melodies, 1838. A selection of the tunes were copied from the 1692 ms, in tablature by A.J. Wighton in the early 19th century; his hand copy is in Dundee Central Library. *Francis Blaikie & Sons, 19th century firm of wine merchants, salvage agents, and insurance brokers based in Queen Street, Glasgow, Scotland. * Heenan Blaikie, defunct Canadian law firm (1973 - 2014). *James Blaikie & Sons, 19th century iron foundry and iron bridge manufacturers, in Edinburgh, Scotland. *John M. Blaikie (barque), ship built in 1885 at Londonderry, Nova Scotia, Canada by John MacKay Blaikie and owned by McLellan & Blaikie. Wrecked 4 May 1891. *McLellan & Blaikie, a 19th and early 20th century ship building firm in Londonderry, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Notable people called Blaikie connected to the Jacobite Rising of 1715 and the Lord Provosts of Aberdeen

writer Alexander MacDonald Munro reports that some men by the name of Blaikie, belonging originally to the Borders, fought in the

Jacobite Jacobite means follower of Jacob or James. Jacobite may refer to: Religion * Jacobites, followers of Saint Jacob Baradaeus (died 578). Churches in the Jacobite tradition and sometimes called Jacobite include: ** Syriac Orthodox Church, sometimes ...

army in the failed Jacobite Rising of 1715. It is said that during the '15 Rising the father of a David Blaikie was called out of the ranks of the Jacobite army and shown to the so called ''"Old Pretender"'', James Francis Edward Stuart, as one of the finest Jacobite soldiers or "Highlanders", being a very big man. Following the failed '15 Rising, it is said that this Jacobite soldier called Blaikie was given a land grant to farm near Dunkeld,

Perthshire Perthshire (locally: ; gd, Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, ...

nobleman James Drummond, 2nd Duke of Perth. Around 1780, his son or grandson, John Blaikie, left Dunkeld,

and moved to Aberdeen where he had children, including two sons who would both later go on to be the Lord Provosts of Aberdeen, James and Sir Thomas.

Battle of Flodden (1513)

It is said that a James Blaikie bore a standard for the Scottish army at the Battle of Flodden in 1513 between Scotland and England, and was therefore among the men referenced in the

ballad “'' Flowers of the Forest''” who fell at the Battle of Flodden.

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