William Cardno

1904 - 1975  (70 years)

• Name	William Cardno
  Birth	1 Mar 1904	Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Census	2 Apr 1911	Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire   [2]
  	School
  	Age: 7
  Death	1975
  Person ID	I4579	All
  Last Modified	14 Dec 2025

  
  

  Father	William Cardno,   b. 11 Aug 1860, Rathen/Fraserburgh d. 2 Jun 1951, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire (Age 90 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth (Betty) Duthie,   b. 8 Jan 1864, Inverallochy, Rathen d. 18 Jan 1929, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	29 Dec 1887	Rathen   [3, 4]
  Notes	MC gives address of 26 Cairnbulg.
  Family ID	F601	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jessie Duthie Noble   d. 26 Jan 1957, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire
  Marriage	19 Apr 1929	Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire   [5]
  Children	1. Betty Cardno + 2. Charlotte Noble Cardno,   b. 16 Apr 1931, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire d. 27 Dec 1992, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire (Age 61 years)
  Family ID	F517	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1 Mar 1904 - Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire Census - School,Age: 7 - 2 Apr 1911 - Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire Marriage - 19 Apr 1929 - Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  WILLIE CARDNO was born in 1904 at 16 North Street. Fraserburgh, the house where he still resides. He vas the second youngest of a family of five, and son of the late Mr Wulsie Cardno. a gentleman of considerable knowledge and ability. He went to the Infant School, the Central School and the Academy. At the age of 15, he left the Academy and went to sea as an apprentice fisherman aboard the drifter Duthies. He became skipper at the age of 23 in 1927, and his first command was the steam drilter Emblem. He joined the Royal Naval Reserve in 1939 and served throughout the war as a Skipper Lieutenant aboard minesweepers. He was mentioned in despatches, He married Miss Jessie Noble who died in 1957. She was the daughter of a fisherman. Skipper Cardno has two of a family, Charlotte and Betty, who are both married. After the war Skipper Cardno commanded the steam drifter Cornucopia, until he built the motor boat Cornucopia. He sold the Cornucopia in 1963 and retired from active fishing, after 12 vears. He is chairman of the Fraserburgh branch of the Scottish Herring Producers’ Association and has been a member of the Harbour Board since 1949. He is a member of Masonic Lodge Fraserburgh No. 1955, In 1955 Skipper Cardno had the, distinction of winning the Maitland Trophy with his motor fishing boat Cornucopia when he landed 233 crans of herring the biggest landing in the Maitland Trophy competition.

  
  

• Sources

  [S122] Births (SR) Scotland, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. 15 March 1904. CARDNO, William. 196/ 74. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 14 December 2025. Born at 16 North Street, Fraserburgh. Parents: William Cardno, Fisherman, and Elizabeth Duthie (married 29 December 1887). Informant: William Cardno, Father. [S125] Census records. Scotland., Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. 02 April 1911. CARDNO, William. 196/1/29. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 15 November 2025. . 16 North Street, Fraserburgh: William Cardno. Head. 50. Married. Fisherman. Own account. b Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. Elizabeth Cardno. Wife. 47. Married (23 years, 9 children, 5 living). b Rathen, Aberdeenshire. Lewis Cardno. Son. 16. Single. Fish salesman. Worker. b Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. John Cardno. Son. 11. School. b Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. William Cardno. Son. 7. School. b Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. Alexander R Cardno. Son. 3. b Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. [S1] Taylor, /d12.htm, http://ca.geocities.com/taylorhomeca/. [S10] Dave Jacobs, (FTW\Cardno.ged). [S157] Marriages index (SR) Scotland., Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. 1929. CARDNO, William and NOBLE, Jessie Duthie. 196/ 28. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 13 December 2025.