Where lie the roots of... Cadie?

in Scotland - a manservant; porter; a carrier of messages
in Ireland- a rhythmic movement of sound
in Northumberland- a cap or bonnet
in Lancashire- a straw hat
in Indian Micmac- a beautiful, fertile place

Read a little about Cadies below:

There are few with the surname 'Cadie' in Britain any more. Perhaps it's the destiny for Cadies to disperse to the New World, for it seems that there are many in the Americas -particularly in the North and Eastern states of the USA and Canada, and in the Antipodes. There are even claims that the area known as Acadia was named after Cadie, a companion of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano, who charted the lands around the St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia for the French. However, it could well be the other way round:- that anyone hailing from Acadia, or L'Acadie, was called a Cadie.

"For the first time there was to be seen in America a colony of Europeans, not a mere band of adventurers or explorers, but a settled community subsisted by their own labour." - American historian J.A. Doyle.

These colonists settled in L'Acadie, a name derived from the work of the ancient Virgil, who gave it to an idyllic--if imaginary--land inhabited by simple, virtuous people. The name had been popularized in the 1400s in a novel by Jacopo Sanazzaro, which opens with a tribute to a grove of "uncommon and extreme beauty" in a place called Arcadia, and assigned by Verrazano in 1524 .

There is another theory that the name was derived from the Micmac Indian word quoddy or cadie, which meant "fertile" or "beautiful landscape."

There is a legend that the Cadies were falconers that accompanied the Dukes of Montrose -the Clan Graham- in Scotland, and were implicated in the Jacobean uprising of the '45. Although most references to 'Cadie' come from the east of Scotland, there is a mention in a poignant song called Dumbarton's Drums'.

The legend continues that before the ill-fated events of 1745, one of the family became an itinerant priest who eventually reached the shores of Devon and Dorset and married into the ancestoral line of Sir Francis Drake, the great Elizabethan seafarer and adventurer. To this day, there are links between the names of Graham, Drake and Cadie. There is a Graham Chapel in a small parish church deep in the Dorset countryside. And a Cadie -Jonathan Cadie- is registered as marrying in St. Mary's Church, Taunton, Somerset, in 1675. More notorious was a Drake who was infamous in the Dorchester area for horsewhipping anyone who didn't doff his cap as his carriage went by.

According to Robbie Burns...

Errand runners in Edinburgh, referred to in relation to Fox's notorious gambling habits in 'The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer'.

The traveller Edward Burt called 'The Cawdys, a very useful Black-guard, who attends the Coffee Houses and Publick Places to go Errands; and though they are wretches, that in rags lye upon the Stairs, and in the Streets at Night, yet are they often considerably trusted...'