A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS.
HOME of Blackadder, descended of John Home, fourth son of Home of Wedderburn,
who was killed at Flodden, married one of the heiresses of Blackadder of
that Ilk. Of whom is lineally descended Sir John Home of Blackadder, baronet.
He carries, quarterly, first azure, on a cheveron argent, three roses gules, for Blackadder
a cross
;
second Home, third Pepdie, fourth Sinclair of Herdmanston, argent,
ingrailed azure, supported on the dexter by an otter, and on the sinister by a
falcon, all proper ; crest, an adder sable in pale, holding in its mouth a rose gules,
leaved and stalked vert : motto, Vise a la fin.
HOME of Renton, descended of Manderston, a younger son of Wedderburn. Of
whom is Sir Robert Home of Renton, Knight-Baronet, who carries, quarterly,
first Home, second Pepdie, third argent, three hunting-horns sable, stringed gules,
for Forrester ; fourth gules-, a pelican feeding her young argent, vulnered, proper,
for Elme of Elmeford, whose heiress they married ; and for crest, a pelican vul-
nered, proper.
HOME of Todrig in the Merse, an ancient cadet of the family of Home, car-
ried, quarterly, first and fourth Home, second and third argent, one papingoe vert,
beaked and membred gules, for Pepdie ; as on his seal appended to a resignation of
the lands of Todrig in the year 1491.
HOME of Eccles, quarterly, first Home, second Pepdie, third argent, three
escutcheons vert, for Home of Broxmouth ; the fourth as the first ; crest, a lion's
head erased, and full faced : motto, True to the end.
The first of this family was Sir James Home, who got from his father, Cowden-
to the Lord Home.
knows, the barony of Eccles. He married Isabel, daughter
She bore to him several children. The eldest son, Sir George, married Jean Home,
heiress of Broxmouth and Pinkerton. He was one of those who accompanied Sir
William Alexander to plant Nova Scotia in America, according
to the tenor of
the institution of the Order of Knight-Baronet, whose posterity enjoyed the estate of
Eccles till of late. This family is now represented by Alexander Home, Esq. a
son of that family, who has right to carry the above arms : As in the Plate of
Achievements.
HUME of Kimmerghame, descended of a second brother of the House of Polwarth,
carried, quarterly, first Home, within a bordure ingrailed argent ; second
Polwarth, third Sinclair ; and fourth as first ; crest, a lion's head erased argent,
with a collar powdered with roses and flower-de-luces gules : motto, True to the
end.
This family has of late failed in an heir-male, and the fortune is now fallen to
Sir Andrew Hume, a younger son of the Earl of Marchmont, as heir-male, one of
the Senators of the College of Justi.ce, who carries his father's arms, as before,
v, ithih a bordure ermine. As in Plate of Achievements.
Sir GUSTAVUS HUME of Home-Castle in Ireland, descended of Sir Alexander
Hume of North-Berwick, a younger son of Polwarth, who was Provost of Edinburgh
in the reign of King James VI. carried, quarterly, first and fourth, the arms
of Polwarth of that Ilk ; second and third Sinclair ; and over all an escutcheon, by
way of surtout vert, a lion rampant argent, on a chief of the last, three papingoes
of the first, for Home and : Pepdie Which arms were lately placed by our heralds
on the funeral escutcheon of George Hume of Kimmerghame, and are so cut in
the Plate of Achievements.
HOME of Ninewells is said to be descended of Home of Tvningham, who was
of a younger son of Home of that Ilk, vert, a lion rampant arge.it, within a bordure
or, charged with nine fountains or wells, proper, relative to his de ignation ;
crest, a lion's head erased argent, collared : gules motto, True to the end. Lyon
Register.
HOME of Whitefield, descended of a brother of Ninewells, quarterly, first and
fourth Home of Ninewells ; second Pepdie, third argent, a stag's head erased, with
a'cross pateefitcbe, between his attires gules, for Cairncross; his mother being the
only sister of Mr Alexander Cairncross, sometime Parson of Dumfries, and after
Archbishop of Glasgow. He died unmarried, Bishop of Raphoe in Ireland, to whose
fortune the above George Home of Whitefield succeeded.
HOME of Crossrig, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, a second brother
of Sir James Home of Blackadder, quarterly, first and fourth vert, a lion ram-