A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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MURRAY of Falahall, of late designed of Philiphaugh, an ancient family in Teviotdale,
argent, a hunting-horn sable, stringed and garnished gules on a chief
azure, three stars of the first ;. crest, a demi-man clothed in green, winding an
hunting-horn, proper : motto, Hinc usque superna venabor. These of this family
have been long heritable Sheriffs of Selkirk and the Forest. Their ancient char-
ter, as Sir James Dalrymple, in his Collections, tells us, is from James Lord Douglas^
to Roger de Moravia, the son of Archibald of the lands of Fala, in the year 1321,
Of whom was descended, Sir John Murray, one of the Commissioners for the shira
of Selkirk to the Parliament, in the year 1612, who was designed of Falahall -
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and these of the family since have been stiled of Philiphaugh.
MURRAY of Blackbarony, in the South, a knightly family, claims also an ancient
descent ; for which see Dalrymple's Collections. And, in the Earl of Haddington's
Collections, there is a charter of Robert Duke of Albany, Governor of Scot-
land, of the lands of Traquair and Shillinglaw, to William Watson and his
spouse Janet, daughter to John Carmichael, and to the heirs of their body ; which
failing, to Andrew Murray, son to the deceased John Murray of Blackbarony, from
whom is descended the present Laird of Blackbarony, who carries argent, a fetterlock
azure, on a chief of the last, three stars of the first ; crest, a dexter hand
holding a scroll, proper : motto, Deum time. As in our old books and New
Register.
MURRAY of Elibank, in Selkirkshire ; the first of which family was Sir Gideon
Murray, Treasurer-Depute to King James VI. third son to Andrew Murray of
Blackbarony, and his wife Grissel Bethune, a daughter of Creigh : Their son Sir
Patrick was made a Lord of Parliament by King Charles I. in the year 1643. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Dundas of Arniston, by whom he had
his son and successor, Patrick Lord Elibank. He married Elizabeth Stewart,
daughter of John, first Earl of Traquair, father and mother of Alexander Murray,
third Lord Elibank, who married Anne, daughter of Alexander Burnet, Arch-
Bishop of St Andrews, by whom he had Alexander, the present Lord Elibank.
The arms he now useth bespeak him rather a cadet of Tullibardin, than of
Blackbarony, viz. azure, three stars within a double tressure counter-flowered
argent, and, in the centre, a marlet or, supported by two horses argent, bridled
gules; crest, a lion rampant gules, holding a battle-ax, proper: motto, Virtute fideque.
As in the Plate of Achievements.
MURRAY of Livingston, descended of a second son of Sir Gideon Murray of
Elibank, Treasurer-Depute to King James VI. or, a fetter-lock azure, on a chief
of the second, three stars argent, within a bordure indented gules ; crest, a hand,
proper, holding a fetter-lock or : motto, Inde securior. New Register.-
MURRAY of Spot, a second son of the first Lord Elibank, azure, a martlet-, between
three stars argent, within a double tressure, flowered and counter-flowered or^
all surrounded within a bordure parted per pale, of the second and third; crest, a
horse argent, furnished gules : motto, Virtute fideque. Lyon Register.
MURRAY Earl of DYSART, azure, an imperial crown or, between three stars
argent, within a double tressure flowered and counter-flowered of the second; crest,
a mermaid, holding a mirror in her right hand, and in her left a comb, all proper ;
supporters, two lions gules, collared azure, and charged, with three stars : argent
motto, Tout pret.
The first of this family was William Murray, a son of William Murray, parson
of Dysart, a younger brother of Murray of Woodend in Perthshire, who descended
in the reign of King James III. of a younger son of Tullibardin ; to whom
King Charles I. granted letters patent for making him Earl of Dysart Lord
Huntingtour ; but those letters did not pass the seals till the third year of the
reign of King Charles II. He had, by his wife Elizabeth Bruce, of the family of
Clackmanan, two : daughters The eldest, Elizabeth Countess of Dysart, procured
letters patent, whereby the honour was conferred on herself and her heirs. She
was twice married ; first, to Sir Lionel Talmash of Hemlingham in England, and
bore to him Lionel Talmash, Lord Huntingtour and Earl of Dysart, and two-
daughters.. The first, Elizabeth Talmash Dutchess of Argyle, and mother to the
And after his de^
present duke ; the second, Katharine, wife to the Lord Down :
cease, to John Earl of. Sutherland, but had no issue. The Countess of Dysart