Person:Andrew Haig (1)

Sir Andrew Haig, the ninth laird, the only one of the race that rose to knighthood, and the first that dropped the old ‘De Haga’ for the plain ‘Haig.’

Sir Andrew Haig of Bemersyde is the son of John de Haga of Bemersyde and Mary Maitland.2 He married Blanch (?) before 13 May 1395.1
He witnessed a charter of David Menyheis de Weme.1 He was invested as a Knight by King Robert III.1
Child of Sir Andrew Haig of Bemersyde and Blanch (?)
John Haig of Bemersyde+2 d. 1436

The oldest reference to the name of HOGE with which we have met is in 1425, when PATRICK HOGE and GILBERT HOGE, Squires, are named among the gentlemen who 'devydit the marches betwixt Ridbeth and Bemersyde, SIR ANDREW HAIG, the Laird of Bemersyde, presiding.

It would appear that the HOGE Squires mentioned above would have been men of high social standing, who owned, lived on, or lived near the Bemersyde, estates. The HOGE's were chief landowner's in the areas of DUNS, FOGO, COCKBURNSPATH, COLDSTREAM, NEWLISTON, KIRKLISTON. They would have been young nobleman acting as attendants' to a knight, SIR ANDREW HAIG, of Bermersyde, before becoming a knight themselves. You will find these HOGE's with variant spellings of HOG, HOGG, HOGGE, etc. I remain a bit sceptical of these HOGE's kinship relationship to the HAIG's of Bemersyde. However, these two HOGE's are dividing the border between Redpath, Earlston, Berwickshire and Bemersyde House, Berwickshire. A distance of 4.8 miles between the two.