Clan Hume/Home People Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) As an advocate, Henry Home defended Captain Porteous in 1736, after he had ordered his men to fire into an Edinburgh crowd. He became Lord Kames in 1752 when made a judge. Kames is near Eccles in Berwickshire. Punishment for the ’45 included the forfeiture of estates […]
Clan Maitland People Sir Richard Maitland, Lord Lethington (1496 – 1586) Scottish poet, father of William Maitland of Lethington, Secretary of State to Mary I of Scotland. In his later years he was blind, and occupied himself in composing a History of the House of Seaton, and by writing poems, e.g., On the New Year, […]
The Latin word “Scotti” originally denoted the Irish Celts and later the Gaels in general. The earliest certain record of the name was of Uchtredus filius Scotti, who lived around 1130. From him were descended the Scotts of Buccleuch and the Scotts of Balwearie. The Scotts married well and acquired more lands and in time […]
MacKay Clan Crest Crest Description: A dexter arm erect couped at the elbow the hand grasping a dagger also erect, all Proper MacKay Coats of Arms A note on Coats of Arms: Under Scottish heraldic law a coat of arms is awarded to an individual (with the exception of civic or corporate arms) . There […]
Oliphant Clan Crest Crest Description: A unicorn’s head couped Argent armed and manned Or Oliphant Coats of Arms A note on Coats of Arms: Under Scottish heraldic law a coat of arms is awarded to an individual (with the exception of civic or corporate arms) . There is no such thing as a ‘family coat […]
Clan Duncan Crest Worn by all of the name and ancestry Crest Description: On waves of the sea, Argent, a lymphad proper under sail, Or, flagged, Gules, the sail charged with a clarion, Gules Clan Duncan Coat of Arms A note on Coats of Arms: Under Scottish heraldic law a coat of arms is awarded […]
In 1241, the time of Alexander II, Malcolm, Earl of Lennox, granted the lands of Colquhoun in Dunbartonshire to Humphrey of Kilpatrick. Humphrey’s son Ingram is the first person recorded as taking Colquhoun for his surname. Around 1368, Luss, on Loch Lomond, was acquired by Sir Robert Colquhoun through marriage. From then on the chiefship […]
he de la Hayes were a powerful Norman family, princes of whom came with William the Conqueror to England in 1066. The name means hedge, and was not translated into the English language. In Gaelic, however, the nameholders became Garadh, a word encompassing hedge, wall, dyke and also a defensive stockade. To this day the […]
(By Dr Bruce Durie) It seems strange that a surname apparently descended from Alpin, father of Kenneth MacAlpin (Cinaed mac Ailpin, Coinneach mac Ailpein) has never had a Chief of Names and Arms. The reality is that there are no connected genealogies back to Alpin, despite claims of seven established Clans to descend from him […]
Little Clan Crest Crest Description: A demi lion Sable powdered with saltires Argent, armed Gules, in dexter paw a cutlass Proper and in sinister a saltire Argent Little Coats of Arms: A note on Coats of Arms: Under Scottish heraldic law a coat of arms is awarded to an individual (with the exception of civic […]
