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ISBN 0-476-0051
1-6
Sources:
BGA:
Sir Bernard Burke,
BP:
Burke
Clan Map:
Sir Iain
's
Peerage
The General Armory, 1884, reprinted 1976.
& Baronetage,
MoncreifFe of that
Ilk
106th edn., 1999 (or earlier year if specified).
and
Don
Pottinger,
Bartholomews Clan Map
Scotland of Old; 2nd edn., 1961.
C. of A.:
The Coat ofArms, magazine of The Heraldry Society, London.
DP:
Debretts Peerage
DT:
The Double Tressure, journal of the Heraldry Society of Scotland.
GR:
Gayre of Gayre and Nigg, Roll of Scottish Arms,
HSS:
Information fi'om the
and Baronetage, 2003
(or earlier year if specified).
1
964
&
1
969.
Lyon Register kindly supplied by a member of the Heraldry
Society of Scodand.
Fac Simile of an Ancient Heraldic Manuscript Emblazoned by
of the Mount, Lyon King ofArms, 1542, Edinburgh, 1822.
Lyndsay:
Nisbet:
Alexander Nisbet,
Ol
Sir
<~i
James Balfour
All Arms
A
An Ordinary ofArms
and Bearings
in
contained in the Public Register of
Scotland {\672-\90\), Edinburgh, 1903, reprinted 1969.
An Ordinary ofArms Volume
SCAFE;
George
II
...
1902-1973, Edinburgh, 1977.
Way
of Plean and Romilly Squire, Collins Scottish Clan
Encyclopedia, Glasgow, 1994.
:
Scots Roll:
Sir
Thomas
Innes of Leamey, Scots Heraldry,
CoUn Campbell, The
David Lyndsay
System ofHeraldry, 1722, reprinted Edinburgh, 1984.
Paul,
02:
Scots Her.
Sir
Scots Roll.
A
2nd
edn.,
1
& Family
956, reprinted 1971.
Study of a Fifteenth Century Roll ofArms,
Heraldry Society of Scotland, 1995.
Tak Tent:
Tak
W A:
Whitaker 's Almanack 2004,
Tent, newsletter
(list
of the Heraldry Society of Scodand.
A & C Black (PubUshers) Ltd,
of 'Chiefs of Clans and Names
in
Scodand').
London, pp
1
1
7
&
1
1
i
Armorial Bearings of the Surnames of Scotland
Text and illustrations by Donald Roger Barnes
'Armorial bearings', 'arms', or 'coat of arms' refers to the heraldic design on a
shield. In Scotland, armorial bearings are
Arms. Since 1672, arms
under the control of the Lord Lyon King of
(as well as crests, mottoes, supporters
and badges) have been
recorded in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, known
informally as 'Lyon Register'. Earlier holders of the office of Lord Lyon made their
own
registers
of arms, some of which
still exist.
Although there are some exceptions, it can generally be said that, in Scotland,
coats of arms belonging to people of the same surname have similar designs. It
all
is,
deduce a person's surname from the design of his or her
therefore, usually possible to
arms. However, as only one person at a time
is
any one particular coat of
entitled to
arms, other people of that same surname (including immediate family members) must,
if they wish to use arms, apply to have differenced versions matriculated (registered)
in their
own names.
Differencing might range from the simple addition of a border or
a crescent, to considerably
more complicated changes.
For most of those surnames where there have been coats of arms registered for
people of that name, there exists an undifferenced design on which all others of that
name are based. Some of these undifferenced arms may be only theoretical designs
inferred from old records
and differenced versions.
Only the 'chief of the arms and name'
A
person
who
entitled to use the undifferenced arms.
can establish his or her relationship
whose name arms have been
version, and those
is
who
registered,
may
to a male-line ancestor in
apply for a matriculation of a differenced
cannot establish such a link
may
apply for a grant of a
new
coat of arms which, however, will be based on the design of the chiefs.
Arms
matriculated or granted will not necessarily include any augmentation
which occurs in the chiefly arms, such as the double tressure
Buchanan arms, or either of the crowns in the Ogilvy arms.
Most of the
entries in this booklet are
flory counterflory in the
of the registered undifferenced arms of the
chief of that surname, whether or not there
is a currently recognised chief For other
arms have been inferred from ancient records and from
differenced versions recorded for others of the surname, and there would not, in these
cases, be a currently recognised chief Where there is no current chief, the arms cannot
entries, the theoretical chiefly
be borne by anyone
until the
Lord Lyon determines who
is
until die
Lord Lyon determines both
the chiefly arms.
that
No one
who
is
and the
anybody
the rightful chief;
inferred designs (or possibly a slightly differing version) cannot be borne by
the rightful chief, and the exact design of
can be recognised as chief of a surname unless he or she uses
surname alone without
it
being hyphenated with any other name.
1
)
1:
In this booklet, the text of each entr> consists of up to five items:
The surname, of which there are often several different spellings, but generally only
the main one is shown. WTiere the surname varies only in the endmg (e.g. ...es/
...is.
...ton/... tone/... toun.
...ie/...y.
doubling of a consonant such as Dun/Dunn).
or between Mac.../Mc.... Macd.../MacD... etc. only one spelling
is
usually
shown
and the others are implied.
2:
The blazon of the arms. (For readers unfamiliar with heraldic terminolog>'. there is
(on p. 20) a bnef glossars' of those terms which are not obvious by comparing
blazon with illustration. If the tinctures of a beasts tongue, claws, horns, beak
recorded blazon. I have either followed the heraldic
etc are not given in the
convention as to what those tinctures should be or
have followed an old
I
coloured painting such as The Scots Roll.)
3:
The title and/or surname and designation (territorial or otherwise) of the person in
whose name the arms have been recorded. If in italics, then that person is (to the
4:
The Lyon Register ('LR) volume, page, and year
best of
my
the entr\
5:
knowledge) the current chief of the arms.
References to sources (see inside front cover).
that the
(or range
of possible years where
undated).
is
arms given
are inferred as
(Inferred undifferenced" means
mentioned on page
1
.
In 3 above, a designation 'of that Ilk"
example.
Bloggs of that
Ilk"
means
means ^of the same", so that generallv. for
same thing as "Bloggs of Bloggs"
both
—
the
these designations usually implying chiefship
the former st)ie
is
of the surname. (Sometimes the use of
because the lands named 'Bloggs" are no longer held bv the chief
although 'of Bloggs" does not necessarily
The designation of some
chiefs
rather than the chiefly lands.
is
that
'Lord"
mean
that
he or she
of the surname
is
that
(e.g.
still
holds those lands.)
MacGregor of MacGregor)
rank of the peerage equivalent to an
English baron.
In almost all of those surnames which contain the letter
z (such as Dalziel.
Mackenzie. Menzies. Scr>-mzeour. and Zuill), the z has replaced the yogh
(3) which
represented the guttural sound that
is
pronounced as a
now
z.
It
is.
however,
Dalyell. Scr\'mgeour. Wingate. Yuill
a cross between a
and
Zuill.
On page
21
Ivi:
is
a
The Scottish National Dictionary^
map showing
z.
a g.
y. or
It
should not be
^
as in Dalziel.
(Moncreiffe, The Highland Clans.
1967. etc (under Mackenzie and Menzies); Black. The
reprinted 1993. p.
y and
usually written as
Surnames of Scotland. 1946.
vol. X. 1976. pp 246 & 297.)
places mentioned in this volume. See. also, the
notes at the foot of page 20.
Even though much effort has been made to ensure the accurac\ of this booklet, it
cannot be taken as authoritative or completely up to date. (The L\on Register
reference might have been superseded, but the arms
knowledge,
still
be correct.)
An
shown w ill.
old Gaelic proverb has
have written a book, even a bad one".
it
that
It
to the best
is
of
mv
a great thing to
Abemethy
Or, a lion rampant Gules,
surmounted by a riband Sable.
Abemethy of that
Ilk;
Lord Abemethy;
Lord Salto(u)n.
SCAFE;
Nisbet; Clan
Map; Lyndsay;
BOA
Alexander
Parted per pale Argent and Sable, a
chevron and
in
base a crescent, both
counterchanged.
Alexander of Menstrie, Earl of
Stirling.
DT 21, pp. 7 & 8;
GR (inferred undifferenced).
Nisbet;
Baird
Gules, a boar passant Or.
Baird of Auchmedden.
LR
1/120, 1672-92.
SCAFE; GR; Nisbet
(Scots bair
= boar)
V^
^ M/» ^
fy
/
Blackadder
Balfour
Argent, on a chevron Sable, an
otter's
head erased of the
Balfour of that
LR
Field.
Azure, on a chevron Argent, three
roses Gules.
Blackadder of that
Ilk.
SCAPE;
32/16, 1936.
Nisbet; Lyndsay;
GR (quarterings
SCAFE; 02;
Ilk.
Blackader, and
Nisbet
in
arms of Home of
of Carsrigg)
Hume
Borthwick
Boyd
Argent, three cinquefoils Sable.
Azure, a fess check7 Argent and Gules.
Borthwick of that
Lord Kilmarnock.
Ilk,
Lord Borthwick.
LR
34/43, 1941.
LR70/9, 1986.
SCAFE; 02;
SCAFE; HSS;
Nisbet; BP,
WA; BP
Nisbet;
WA
Buchanan
Brisbane
Or, a lion rampant Sable, armed
Sable, a chevron cheeky
Or and
Gules between three cushions of
the Second.
of the
Second.
Brisbane of Bishopton.
LR
and langued Gules, within a double
tressure flory counterflor)'
Buchanan of that
LR
Ilk.
1/122. 1675.
1/122, 1672-92.
SCAFE; GR; Lyndsay.
SCAFE;
Nisbet;
GR
Nisbet states that an earlier version had the
lion 'degutted" Or. Scots Roll
shows the
lion
'goutty d'Or" (strewn with golden droplets).
Cairns
Campbell
Gules, three martlets Or.
Gyronn) of eight Or and Sable.
Cairns of that
Duke of Argyll.
SCAFE
Ilk.
& Nisbet:
(Balfour's
LR
MS);
58/81. 1977.
Lvndsav
SCAFE. HSS,
Nisbet:
WA: BP
Cockbum
Cunningham
Argent, three cocks Gules.
Argent, a shake-fork Sable.
Cockbum of that
Cunningham of Kibnaurs,
Ilk,
and of Langton.
Earl
of Glencaim.
LR
1/129. 1673.
LR
SCAFE; GR;
(02,
BP
1/53.
c.
1672.
Nisbet; Scots Roll.
& DP show Cockbum of that Ilk,
SCAFE, GR: Nisbet
but the arms are differenced by a bordure.)
Dalziel
/
Sable, a naked man,
expanded Proper.
Dalziel of that
LR
Ilk,
c.
1672.
SCAFE; GR;
Nisbet.
1/64.
Don
Dalyell
his
arms
(i.e.
Earl of Camwath.
covered with
on a
fess Argent, three
Sable.
Don of Neulon.
LR
Baronet.
1/136. 1672-85.
SCAFE: GR: Nisbet
Lyndsay shows, for Dawjell of that
wildman
Vert,
hair).
Ilk.
a
mascles
Drummond
Or, three bars
Dundas
wavy
Argent, a lion rampant Gules.
Gules.
Dundas of Dundas.
Drummond ofStobhall,
Earl of Perth.
LR
LR
18/56, 1905.
40/77, 1953.
02; SCAFE; Nisbet; BP;
Edmonstone
/
02; SCAFE; Nisbet; Scots Roll;
WA
Lyndsay;
Edmiston
WA
Eglinton
Gules, three annulets Or, stoned
Or, three crescents Gules.
Azure.
Edmonstone/Edmiston of that
Ilk,
and of Ednam.
LR
Eglinton of that
Nisbet
1/144, 1672-93.
SCAFE; 01; GR;
Ilk.
Nisbet; Scots Roll;
Lyndsay
Gayre
Forsyth
/
Gair
Argent, a chevron engrailed Gules
Argent, a fleur-de-lys Sable, and in
between three
the dexter chief point a star Vert.
griffins segreant
Azure, armed and membered Sable,
Gayre of Gayre and Nigg.
crowned Or.
Forsyth of that
LR 66/25,
Ilk.
LR63/7. 1978.
SCAFE; HSS;
SCAFE; DT4,
1982,
DT7, 1985,
21-24; Nisbet;
p.
1982.
p. 12, n.6;
WA
WA
Glendinning
Quarterly indented Argent and Sable,
a cross counterchanged.
Glendinning/Glendonwyn of that
SCAFE
Ilk.
& Nisbet (Mackenzie's Science
of Heraldry); Scots Roll; Lyndsay
Gordon
Azure, three boars' heads couped Or,
armed Proper and langued Gules.
Marquess ofHuntly.
LR37/1
,1950.
SCAFE; 02;
Nisbet;
WA
Graham
Or, on a .'lief Sable, three escallops
oftheFii.^i.
Duke of Montrose.
LR
76/89, 1998.
SCAFE; HSS; Lyndsay;
WA
10
Hamilton
Gules, three cinquefoils Ermine.
Hamilton of that
Ilk,
Duke of
Hamilton.
Nisbet; Clan
Map; SCAFE; HSS (LR
58/1,
1974).
Scots Roll
& Lyndsay show the cinquefoils
The
pierced.
illustration in
Lyndsay
suggests that the ermine spots might have
their origin in the veins
of the cinquefoils.
Hay
Argent, three inescutcheons Gules.
Hay
LR
ofErroll, Earl ofErroll
64/77, 1980.
Reproduction of matriculation published by
the Heraldry Society of Scotland, 1981;
Nisbet; Lyndsay;
SCAFE;
WA
Hepburn
Gules, on a chevron Argent, a
rose between
of the
two
lions
combatant
First.
SCAFE {The Scots Peerage); Nisbet;
& 02 (inferred undifferenced)
01
11
Herries
Hunter
Argent, three urchins (or herissons)
Or, three hunting horns Vert,
Sable.
garnished and stringed Gules.
Herries of Terreagles, Lord Herries.
Hunter of Hunterston.
Nisbet; Scots Roll,
02 (LR
BGA;
LR 76/50,
Lyndsay;
1995.
18/10, 1904)
SCAFE; HSS: Tak Tent
13;
BGA;
WA
Lidderdale
Lockhart
Azure, a chevron Ermine.
Argent, a man's heart Gules within a
Lidderdale of St Mary's
three boars' heads erased
fetterlock Sable;
LR
Isle.
Lockhart of the Lee,
1/350. 1672-80.
Nisbet;
on a chief Azure,
LR
OR
42/40, 1957.
SCAFE; 02;
WA
McCorquodale
McCuUoch
Argent, a stag Gules, attired Or,
Ermine,
fretty Gules.
issuing from a fess wreathed of
the
McCulloch of MvTtoune.
Second and Third.
McCorquodale of that
Ilk
LR
and
1/185. 1672-74.
Phantilands.
SCAFE. GR; 01; Clan Map
LR
1/359. 1672-92.
SC.\FE. GR. Clan
Map
12
of the
First.
13
14
MacGregor
Mackinnon
Argent, a sword in bend Azure, and
an oak tree eradicated
in
bend
Vert, a boar's
sinister
Proper, the former supporting on
point in dexter chief an antique
holding
in its
head erased Argent,
the shank bone
mouth
its
of a deer Proper.
crown
Gules.
Mackinnon of Mackinnon.
MacGregor of MacGregor, Baronet.
LR
LR
36/153, 1948.
64/31. 1979.
SCAFE; 02:
SCAFE; HSS; BP;
MacLaren / MacLaurin*
Or,
Macpherson
two chevronels Gules
accompanied by a lymphad,
furled
and oars
in action
sails
Or and Azure,
First, sail furled,
all
a
oars in
Proper, flags and
pennon flying Gules; in the dexter
canton, a dexter hand fessways couped
and holding a dagger erect, and in the
MacLaren of MacLaren and
Achleskine.
sinister canton, a cross crosslet fitchy
all
42/1 19, 1958.
Gules.
Macpherson ofCluny.
SCAFE; 02; WA.
*
Parted per fess
lymphad of the
action and tackling
Sable in
base.
LR
WA
WA
Although most MacLaurin matriculations are
LR
based on the arms shown here, MacLaurin of
49/79, 1966.
WA
Dreghom has; Argent, a shepherd's crook Sable
(LR 1/529 & 530. 1781). 01;GR
SCAFE; 02;
Matheson
Moffat
Gyronny of eight Sable and Gules,
a lion rampant Or, armed and
Sable, a saltire
and a chief Argent.
langued Azure.
Moffat of that
Ilk.
Matheson of Matheson, Baronet.
LR
LR
65/60, 1983.
SCAFE; HSS; Heraldry
76/39, 1994.
Society of Scotland
Newsletter No. 9; Nisbet; Lyndsay;
SCAFE; HSS, WA, DP
15
WA
Munro / Monro
Monypenny
Or. an eagle's head erased Gules.
Gules, three crosses crosslet fitchy
issuing out of as
many
crescents
Argent.
Munro of Foulis.
Monypenny of Pitmilly.
LR39/1, 1952.
LR
SCAFE; 02;
1987.
70/36.
Nisbet;
WA
SCAFE: HSS. Lyndsay
Ogilvy
/
Pitblado
Ogilvie
Argent, a lion passant guardant Gules,
Vert, a
boars head erased Argent.
armed and langued Azure, crowned
with an Imperial
w ith
Crown and gorged
Pitblado
SCAFE
Pitbladdowe of that
(
Pont "s MS);
DT
10, p.26
(Hague Roll),
Lyndsay
1/63. 1785.
SCAFE; GR;
Nisbet;
WA
Pollock
Vert, a saltire
Preston
Or between
Argent, three unicorns" heads erased
three
bugles, tvvo in fess and one in base
Sable.
Argent, garnished Gules.
Preston of that
Pollock of Overpollock or of that
Ilk.
Ilk.
LR
LR
Ilk.
Nisbet (Workman's MS);
Earl ofAirlie.
LR
/
an open crown both Proper.
1/202. 1673.
1/395. 1672-1698.
SCAFE. GR;
SCAFE.
GR
16
Nisbet
17
18
Purves
Robertson
Purvis
/
/
MacRobert(s)
Robbie
Azure, on a fess between three
mascles Argent, as
of the
many
cinquefoils
Gules, three wolves" heads erased
Field.
Argent, armed and langued Azure.
Purves of Purves, Baronet.
LR
Robertson ofStruan.
1/204. 1772.
LR
SCAFE; GR: Nisbet
40/14. 1954,
WA
SCAFE; 02;
Nisbet;
Rutherford
Stewart
/
Argent, an orle Gules; in chief three
Or, a fess cheeky Azure and Argent.
Stuart
martlets Sable, beaked of the Second.
Nisbet vol
Rutherford of that
I,
p.
43
Ilk;
and of Edgerston.
LR
1/207,
c.
GR; SCAFE;
1672.
Nisbet; Lyndsay
p.
99.
(The orle should probably be correctly
described as a voided escutcheon: see
Lyndsay
p.
84.)
Wright
Tweedie
Argent, a
saltire
Azure, three carpenter's axes Argent.
engrailed Gules and
a chief Azure.
Nisbet (Mackenzie's Heraldrv).
Tweedie of Drumelzier.
SCAFE;
(Most later matriculations
have 'battle axes".)
Nisbet (Font's MS); Clan Map;
Lvndsav
19
for this
surname
/
GLOSSARY
Argent: silver, usually
shown
guardant: full-faced.
as white.
Gules: red.
armed: with claws, talons, horns, tusks,
herisson: hedgehog.
beak (of bird of prey), teeth (but not
inescutcheon: shield.
usually other than tusks): in armour.
langued: tongued.
Azure: blue.
bend
sinister: a
membered: of the
Or: gold, often
horizontal stripe at the top of a shield.
counterchanged: where the shield
two
tinctures,
is
the
raised.
stylised, e.g. 'a heart Proper' is red.
Purpure: purple.
neck: at
at the
endsof asaltire).
paw,
Sable: black.
Second, of the: of the same tincture as the
side, etc.), right-
second tincture mentioned,
hand side of a shield from the point of
view of a person behind the
segreant: (of a griffin) the
shield.
erased: torn off, leaving a ragged edge.
frir
stylised
tails
sinister: left
on white.
star:
the five-pointed charge
of the: of the same tincture as the
Third, of the: of the
of the: of the same tincture as the
tincture:
first
same
tincture as the
any of the colours (Azure, Gules,
Purpure, Sable, Vert), metals (Argent,
tincture mentioned.
Or) and furs (Ermine, Vair,
garnished: decorated (e.g. hunting horn or
bugle, including the sfrings if not
urchin: hedgehog.
otherwise tinctured).
Vert: green.
For most of the surnames
spelling)
as a
third tincture mentioned,
surface of the shield.
modem
known
'mullet' in English heraldry.
expanded: out-spread.
First,
(hand, paw, side, etc); the
opposite of dexter,
escutcheon: shield.
Field,
position as
to-back,
consisting of black, highly
ermine
same
a lion rampant, and with wings back-
eradicated: up-rooted.
Ermine: a
as yellow.
Proper: in natural or usual tinctures, but
tinctures but transposed.
dexter: right (hand,
shown
passant: walking, with the dexter (fore-)leg
divided
and the charges (or
on it have the same
couped: cut off (e.g. hand,
tinctures,
and the
legs of a bird
fore-legs of a griffin.
chief the upper part of a shield; a
into
tincture as the last
of the previously mentioned
bordure: border.
parts thereof) laid
same
Last, of the: of the
diagonal stnpe from sinister
chiefto dexter base.
in this
volume, the
map
etc.).
opposite shows (usually with the
one or more of the following:
a: the place or district that
is
the origin of the surname; b: the place of the territorial
designation of the chief; c: the place or district of the peerage
traditional territory
of the surname;
e: the seat
of the current
title
of the
chief;
f:
chief; d: the
a place
named
after the family.
The map was compiled using information in several of the sources listed inside the
SCAFE, Clan Map, Nisbet, BGA) and the following: George F.
Black, The Surnames of Scotland, 1946, reprinted 1993; Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk,
The Highland Clans, 1967 etc; Martin Coventry, The Castles of Scotland, 1997;
Roddy Martine, Scottish Clan and Family Names, 1987; Ordnance Survey Gazetteer
of Great Britain, 1995; Ordnance Survey maps (19tJi centur>'), reprinted by Caledonian
front cover (such as
Books, Collieston, \9%1;
AA Great Britain Road Atlas,
20
1980.
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