A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE BEND,
The lands of Denniston, in, the sheriffdom of Renfrew, were named from the
first possessor, Danziel, as appears by a charter of the barony of Houston, in the
reign of Malcolm IV. which is bounded with the lands of Daniiel, (see Craw turd's
Hit-tory of Renfrew) whose successors both assumed their name and designation
from them. King David the Bruce gives a charter to Robert Danzelston, son
and heir of Sir John Danzelston, knight, of the barony of Glencairn : And Sir
Robert Danzelston of that Ilk, upon his own resignation, obtains a charter from
King Robert II.
This family at last ended in two heiresses ; Margaret, the eldest, was married to
Sir Robert Cunningham of Kilmaurs, ancestor to the Earl of Glencairn, who got
with her the baronies of Danzelston, Finlayston, Kilmarnock, in Dumbartonshire,
and the barony of Glencairn, in the shire of Dumfries and the second ; daughter,
Elizabeth Denniston, was married to Sir Robert Maxwell of Calderwood, and with
her he got the lands of Mauldsly, Kilkaydow, Stanley, &-c. Upon which account,
the family of Calderwood quarter still the arms of Denniston with their own,
for Denniston : Of which afterwards.
having argent, a bend azure,
There were other families of this name, as Denniston of Cowgrane
in the shire
of Dumbarton, who is reputed the heir-male and representative of the principal
family of Denniston of that Ilk, and carries argent, a bend sable, an unicorn's head
erased in chief of the last, and in base a cross croslet Jitcbe azure; crest, a dexter
hand pointing at a star, proper : motto, Adversa virtute repello : As in the Lyon
Register ; and in Font's Manuscripts of Blazons,
ing families of the name of Denniston.
are the arms of these two follow-
DENNISTON of Duntraith, argent, on a bend azure, between two unicorns' heads
erased sable, armed or, three rings, with carbuncles of the last.
DENNISTON of Mountjohn, argent, on a bend azure, between two unicorns' heads
erased sable, armed or, three cross croslets fitched of the last.
The surname of HERRING, or HERON, with us, gules, on a bend argent, a rose,
between two lions rampant of the field : There was an old family of this name in
Clydesdale, and another in Mid-Lothian, who possessed the lands of Edmonstone
and Gilmerton. A daughter of this family, Giles Herring, was married to Sir
William Somerville of Linton and Carnwath, in the year 1375, who with her got
half of the lands of Gilmerton, and the lands of Drum, of whom is descended the
present laird of Drum, as by the charters and evidents of these lands, which I have
seen in the custody of Somerville of Drum.
There was also another family of this name, designed of Lethendy and Glascuine,
in Perthshire ; John Drummond of Blair, married Agnes Herring, daughter
of Sir David Herring of Lethendy, whose arms, in Font's Manuscripts, are quarterly,
first and fourth gules, on a bend argent, a rose between two lions rampant of
the field ; second and third azure, a cheveron argent, and the same arms for Herring
of Lethendy, stand illuminated with those of other barons, Members of Parliament
in the year 1604, in the House of Falahall, but there are two roses, one
before each lion upon the bend. In the stewartry of Kirkcudbright there is a
family of this name, who write themselves HERON of that Ilk, and carries the paternal
coat of Herring or Herin, as above ; and our heralds have been in use to
place these arms on their funeral escutcheons ; having for crest,
a demi-lion
argent; with the motto, By valour.
LOCKHART of Barr, an ancient family of that name, argent, on a bend sable, three
fetterlocks or. As in Mackenzie's Heraldry.
ALEXANDER BRAND of Baberton, argent, on a bend sable, three mascles of the
first, and on a chief of the second, as many spur-rowels or ; and for crest, two proboscides
of elephants in pale, couped, flexed, and reflexed argent ; that on the dexter
charged with three mascles ; and the other on the sinister, with as many spurrowels
sable ; with the motto, Ay forward* As recorded in the Lyon Register,
with these two following blazons.
JOHN COOK, sometime Bailie of Pittenweem, guks, on a bend or, two cinquefoils
azure, and, in the sinister chief point, a crescent surmounted of a cross croslet of
the second ; crest, a sea cat, appearing out of the wreath ; with the motto, Tutum
monstrat iter.