Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The following is a list of Scottish clans (with and without chiefs) – including, when known, their heraldic crest badges, tartans, mottoes, and other information. The crest badges used by members of Scottish clans are based upon armorial bearings recorded by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland .
Robertland Castle is about one-mile north-east of Stewarton, Ayrshire. [11] It was held by the Cunninghams in 1506 and David Cunningham of Robertland, with others, murdered Hugh Montgomery. [11] However Cunningham was later hunted down and killed as well, although the feud between the two clans continued for at least another twenty years.
Blair as a place name is found in over two hundred localities throughout Scotland. Blair as a surname in Scotland is first recorded in the early 1200s with two main families – Blair of Blair (also known as Blair of that Ilk) from Ayrshire, and Blair of Balthayock from Perthshire, with no known evidence of a common ancestor.
The name is found in early times in Carrick, Scotland. [3] Recherus MecMaccharil witnessed a charter by the Earl of Carrick during the reign of William the Lion. [3] The name is also found as Carleton, which is a place name found around Kirkcudbrightshire, Wigtownshire and Ayrshire. [3] In the records of Whithorn Priory it is recorded as ...
Fiona Watson in "A Report into Sir William Wallace's connections with Ayrshire", published in March 1999, reassesses the early life of William Wallace and concludes, "Sir William Wallace was a younger son of Alan Wallace, a crown tenant in Ayrshire". During the Wars of Scottish Independence William Wallace and Andrew de Moray began a successful ...
Clan Muir is a Scottish clan that is armigerous.Per certain sources, holders of the surname Muir (also appearing as Mure and Moore), of Ayrshire, have been noted as a possible sept of Clan Boyd, though this is not clearly identified to a reliable resource. [37]
Alexander's son was Robert Boyd, 4th Lord Boyd who according to historian William Boyd had the estates and honours of Lord Boyd restored to him in 1536 by James V of Scotland. [12] Although according to the Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia the estates and honours were restored during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. [3]
Today both clans Logan and MacLennan share the same tartan. This tartan was first recorded in 1831 by the historian James Logan, in his book The Scottish Gaël. Later in 1845 The Clans of the Scottish Highlands was published, which consisted of text from Logan, accompanied by illustrations from R. R. McIan. This work was the first which showed ...