The ADIE Family is part of the great Scottish Clan The Gordons, below is its history. 

The Clan Gordon History

The name Gordon comes from the parish of Gordon in Berwickshire and Sir Adam of Gordon was granted Strathbogie, confiscated from the Earl of Atholl, in Aberdeenshire by Robert the Bruce in return for service to Bruce's cause, including being one of the ambassador's to Rome who fought to have the Bruce's excommunication removed. The Gordon's wielded enormous power during the 16th and 17th centuries, so much so that their chief was known as "the Cock of the North".

The castle of Strathbogie was renamed Huntly after a part of the Gordon lands in the Borders. In 1436 Alexander Gordon was named Lord Gordon and his son was given the title of Earl of Huntly.

During the fighting between the Douglases and the King, the Gordon's sided with the King. Their lands were then raided and the castle of Huntly was burned when the Gordons moved south to aid the King. However, once the power of the Douglases was broken the Gordons grew unchallenged.

The fourth Duke of Gordon raised, at his own expense, his own regiment known as the Gordon Highlanders for whom the yellow stripe was introduced into the Black watch tartan. He was also Chancellor of Scotland in 1547 and was a close friend of Mary of Guise Mary Queen of Scots mother.

During the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite rebellions the Gordon's fought on both sides. The second Duke of Gordon followed the "Old Pretender" at Sheriffmuir but the third Duke fought for the Hanoverians against Prince Charlie at Culloden. The Dukes brother, Lord Louis Gordon, did raise two battalions of Gordons to fight for the Prince. He died in France in 1754.

The mother of the famous poet Lord Byron was Catherine Gordon of Gight, who inherited Gight Castle and its lands, only to have to sell them in 1787 to pay off the gambling debts of her husband.

The Clan Gordons Arms Tartan and Badge.

Arms	Tartan	Badge
Quarterly, 1st, Azure, three boars' heads couped Or, armed Proper langued Gules (Gordon); 2nd, Or, three lion's heads erased Gules langued Azure (Lordship of Bedenoch); 3rd, Or, three crescents within a Royal Tressure Gules (seton); 4th, Azure, three fraises Argent (Fraser)		Out of crest coronet a stag's head (affrontée) Properly attired with 10 tines.
Mottoes: Bydand (Abiding), Animo non  atitia (By courage not cunning)	Slogan: A Gordon! A Gordon!	Gaelic Name: Gôrdon

The Adie Family History

The Surnames of Scotland by George Fraser Black ( 1946 ) gives the following information about the our surname :

ADDIE, Addy, Adie, Eadie, Eddie, Edie These names are pet or double diminutives of ADAM, q.v., and were common in Edinburgh ansd in Aderdeenshire in the seventeenth century.  Adam Reid, familiar servitor of King James IV is refered to in 1513 as Ade Rede. William Ade of Inverkeithing rendered homage in 1296 (Bain, II. p. 188), and Andreas Ada is recorded in Edinburgh in 1357. Donald Ade was a presbyter in the diocese of Dunblane in 1465, James Ade was a witness in Linlithgow in 1536 (Johnson), and David Aidye (Adye or Ady)and Salomon Ædie were admitted burgesses of Aberdeen in 1591 and 1607 (NSCM., I, p. 81,96, 105). Payment was made in 1606 'for horss hyir to David Aidye to pass to Strathaquin' (SCM., V. p. 79), probably the David Aidye who appears as a member of the council of Aberdeen in 1624 (CRA., p.393). William Aidy was one of the regents of Marischal College in 1644, and in 1670 it was judicially proven that Alexander Aidy ' now in Dantzik, in the Kingdom of Polland, who went from this burgh Aberdeen about thretie-thrie yeirs or therby, is the laufull sone of vmquhill David Aidy burgess of the said burgh' (SCM., V.  p. 315). Ædie of Moneaght an old family of Aberdeen burgesses.  There was also Adies of Newark in Aberdeenshire; and James Adie sat in Parliment for Perth in 1596 (Stodart, II, p. 315). George Cardno Adie from New Byth served in the Great War (Turriff). Adie 1688, Ædie 1688, Eddie 1689, Edie 1686; Ade, Adye.