Cardno Genealogies
William Cardno
1815 - 1890 (75 years)-
Name William Cardno Born 1815 - 'Fraserburgh Kirk Session Minutes' (CH2/1142/8).
28 January 1816
The Session met & being constituted compeared Magdalene Burnett an unmarried woman in Greenbank who confessed herself with child & accused John Cardno wright in Kinglasser as the father.
The officer was ordered to {wr}ite the said John Cardno to attend the Session next Lord's day. Magdalene Burnett was likewise desired to attend.
04 February 1816
The Session met & being constituted compeared Magdalene Burnett who still persists in accusing John Cardno in Kinglasser as the father of the child with which she is pregnant. A letter was read from John Cardno wherein he positively denies Magdalene Burnetts charge against him & says he has been prevented from attending the Session this day owing to indisposition.
31 March 1816
The Session met & being constituted compeared Magadelene Burnett who had formerly accused John Cardno in Kinglasser as the father of a child with which she is pregnant & who upon bieng further interrogated still persisted in the accusation.
She declared that he had often been in her company & that she had never had improper intercourse with any other man. She further declared that when she called upon him & told him that she was with child to him, he the said John Cardno did noten deny having connection with her, but that he told her that she might give it to whom she pleased, for that he would never acknowledge it. Magdalene Burnett further stated that Alexander Milne, Mason in Gash had seen her in the said John Cardno's company about the beginning of July last when she was going with him to take up grass seeds. This was about 7 or 8 o'clock at night, & she did not return with him till about ten.
At this time she declared that the said John Cardno had connection with her. She likewise said that John Cardno had improper intercourse with her at another time in his father's house when the rest of the family were out, and that John Henden who had come in immediately after from her appearance remarked that he was sure the said John Cardno had been in bed with her.
The said John Cardno being present and confronted with the woman positively denied having had any connection with her. He likewise declared that he had never had any intimacy with her though it is well known that she had been in the practicf going pregnantly to his father's house.
Gender Male Census 30 Mar 1851 Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire 
[1] Hedger Census 7 Apr 1861 Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire [2] Address:
72 Broad StreetOccupation General Labourer Died 24 Dec 1890 Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire [3, 4] Person ID I796 Cardno Last Modified 19 Sep 2022
Father John Cardno Mother Magdalene Burnett, b. 3 Oct 1794, Pitsligo , d. 14 Aug 1878, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire (Age 83 years) Family ID F582 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Jessie Calder Children + 1. Charles Calder Cardno, b. 11 May 1840, Crimond, Aberdeenshire, Scotland , d. 9 Jul 1922, Aberdeen, Scotland (Age 82 years)Last Modified 9 Oct 2014 Family ID F188 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Jean (Jane) Laird, b. 1821, d. 23 Oct 1870, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire (Age 49 years) Married 12 Dec 1847 Rathen Notes - 5 Dec 1847, Fraseburgh [OPRI; IGI]
Children 1. Christian Cardno, b. Jul 1848, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire , d. 10 Jan 1850, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire (Age ~ 1 years)2. Jane Cardno, b. 2 Dec 1850, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire 3. William Cardno, b. 27 Mar 1853, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire , d. 10 Nov 1871, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire (Age 18 years)4. James Cardno, b. 22 Apr 1856, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire + 5. Elizabeth Chalmers Cardno, b. 23 Oct 1858, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire + 6. Margaret Cardno, b. 21 Jun 1861, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire , d. 11 Jun 1898 (Age 36 years)7. Mary Cardno, b. 28 Apr 1864, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire , d. 3 May 1864, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire (Age 0 years)Last Modified 9 Oct 2014 Family ID F288 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- 'Fraserburgh Kirk Session Minutes' (CH2/1142/8).
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Event Map 
Married - 12 Dec 1847 - Rathen 
Census - Hedger - 30 Mar 1851 - Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire Census - Address:
72 Broad Street - 7 Apr 1861 - Fraserburgh, AberdeenshireDied - 24 Dec 1890 - Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - Grain merchant and storekeeper (reportedly father)
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Sources - [S125] Census. Scotland., Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. 30 March 1851. CARDNO, William (Head). 196 /2 /38. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed, 8 November 2020.
Address: Cross Fish Street
William Cardno. Head. Age: 35. Hedger. b. Fraserburgh
Jean Cardno. Wife. Age: 29. b. Rathen
Jean Cardno. Age: 4 months. b. Fraserburgh.
James Knox. Lodger. Age: 55. Labourer. b. New Deer. - [S125] Census. Scotland., Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. 7 April 1861. CARDNO, William (Head). RD 196, ED 1, Page 38. Ancestry. Collection: 1861 Scotland Census. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed, 8 Nov 2020.
William Cardno (Head). Age: 43. Day Labourer. b. Fraserburgh
Jean Cardno (Wife). Age: 39. Labourer's wife. b. Rathen
Jean Cardno (Daughter). Age: 10. Scholar. b. Fraserburgh
William Cardno (Son). Age: 8.
Elizabeth Cardno (Daughter). Age: 2. - [S123] Deaths (SR) Scotland, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. 24 December 1890. CARDNO, William. 196/ 138. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed, 7 Nov 2020.
Widower of Jane Laird. Died at 27 High Street, Fraserburgh.
Father: John Cardno, House carpenter (d.)
Mother: Magdalene Burnett (afterwards married to William Adie) (d.)
Cause of death: Natural decay, Fractured thigh
Informant: Charles Cardno, son (present). - [S30] Cardno Manuscripts, (unpublished notebooks, c.1920-30), p. 71.
d. given as 27 January 1891, d. aged 76
- [S125] Census. Scotland., Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. 30 March 1851. CARDNO, William (Head). 196 /2 /38. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed, 8 November 2020.
