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The Clan MacLellan is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Lowlands. [2] [3] [4] The clan does not currently have a chief therefore it is considered an Armigerous clan.[2] in Edinburgh at the gathering of the clans in 2009 the Maclellan clan were led up the royal mile by Steven McLelland living in carlisle now,
The MacLellan family was numerous in Galloway in the later half of the 14th Century and gave its name to Balmaclellan, MacLellan's town, in the Stewartry of Galloway. It is understood that the Balmaclellan lands were given to John MacLellan by James III, king of Scotland, in 1466 on John MacLellan's intention to provide a site for a church ...
MacLellan: Crest: A naked arm supporting on the point of a sword, a moor's head. [220] Motto: Think on [221] Chief: none, armigerous clan: Lord Kirkcudbright's crest alludes to the tradition that a MacLellan killed an Irish bandit which had terrorised the lands around Kirkcudbright. The king offered anyone who brought the bandit in, dead or ...
Sir Robert MacLellan, born c. 1592 in Bombie, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, was the son of Thomas MacLellan of Bombie and Grisel Maxwell. Robert was the 1st Lord Kirkcudbright, a title he held from 1633 to 1639. Since he was underage in 1597, at the time of his father’s death, his guardian and tutor during his formative years ...
On 2 April 1734 William MacLellan of Borness, glover in Edinburgh, and son to William MacLellan of Balmangan, was specially served heir to James MacLellan, last Lord Kirkcudbright, who was the lineal descendant of Robert, 1st Lord Kirkcudbright, so created Anno 1633; who represented Sir Thomas MacLellan of Bombie, Kirkcudbright, who lived in ...
MacLellan's Castle. MacLellan's Castle in the town of Kirkcudbright, in Galloway, Scotland, was built in the late 16th century. It stands in the centre of Kirkcudbright, on the south side of the River Dee which flows into the Solway Firth. The L-plan castle was the residence of the MacLellan family from whom it derived
The bandit as a dark skinned Moor or Saracen, could though explain the Moor's head that appears on the crest of the Arms of Lord Kirkcudbright, and in consequence the modern crest badge used by Clan MacLellan (the blazon for which is an arm supporting on the point of a sword, a Moor's head). [13]
James MacLellan, born c. 1661 at Auchlane Castle in Kelton, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, was the 5th Lord Kirkcudbright, a title he held from 1721 until his passing in 1730. He was the son of William MacLellan and Jean McGhie, and his life would be marked by both personal and legal challenges. [1]