A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF ARTIFICIAL FIGURES IN ARMORIES. 4.3
liis son, and Janet Kennedy his spouse, in the year 1466, (as in Mr Law's Collec-
tions of Charters.)
This family sutfered much by their loyalty in the reign of King Charles I. Sir
John Fergusson of Kilkerran having, after he had contracted great
debts for the
service of the king, and his estate sequestered by the Usurper, retired abroad till
the Restoration, a short time after which he died. Honourable mention is made
of him in the Bishop of Sarum's Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton, as one v/lio
had firmly adhered in his duty to the king, and who had received several marks
of his Majesty's favour. Of this Sir John the present Sir John Fergusson of Kilkerran
is grandchild, by his younger son Simon Fergusson of Auchinwin, who, by
a patent from the Lyon, carries the above arms ; and, for crest, a bee upon a
thistle, with the motto, Dulcius ex aspens; as in Plate of Achievements.
FERGUSSON of Aucjiinblain, though having none of the ancient inheritance, is
descended of the abovementioned Sir John, by an elder son, thus, Sir John wu,
married to Helen Kennedy, daughter to Sir Thomas Kennedy of Culzcan, and by
her had four sons; Alexander, the eldest, James and John, both captains in the
king's army during the civil wars, and Simon of Auchinwin, father of the present
Sir John Fergusson of Kilkerran.
Alexander, the eldest son, married Margaret Sydserf, daughter to Sydserf,
first Bishop of Galloway, afterwards Bishop of Edinburgh ; and by her he had
two sons, Alexander, and James, a clergyman in : England Alexander married
and with her had three
Katharine, daughter to Sir William Weir of Stonebyres,
sons, John, the eldest, who married Margaret, daughter to David Crawfurd of Kerse;
he died without male-issue, leaving only a daughter by a second wife.
William, the second son, married Agnes, eldest daughter and heir-portioner of
John Kennedy of Auchinblain, a grandson of Kennedy of Knockdon. Captain
Alexander, the third son, died in Darien.
John, the eldest son, and Alexander his father, sold the lands of Kilkerran to
the present Sir John Fergusson, in the year 1700. Alexander, the father, John
and William, the two sons, sign a separate writ, which was in my hands, by which
they cheerfully renounce all interest and title they in any manner of way pretend
to the above lands, and wish a happy enjoyment thereof to the said Sir John and
his : Yet still the primogeniture and right of blood, as heir-male, is in the person
of William Fergusson of Auchinblain, who carries the ancient arms of the family,
as above ; and for crest,
The name of LUMISDEN carries a buckle in their arms.
LUMISDEN of that Ilk, an ancient family in the shire of Berwick, azure, on a
cheveron between three mullets or, a buckle of the first. One of this family married
the heiress of Blenearn of that Ilk, in the same shire, and got these lands with
her and ; besides, to perpetuate the family, added the armorial figures of Blenearn,
vi/.. a hawk, or earn, feeding on a salmon, proper, to their own arms in base, thus
illuminated on the House of Falahall, anno 1604, azure, on a cheveron argent, between
two mullets in chief, and an earn perching on a salmon in base or, a buckle
of the first. 1 am of opinion that the buckle they carry is either upon account
of their alliance with the Stewarts Earls of Angus, or as a mark from their arms
of their superiority and patronage. Afterwards, the earn perching on a salmon,
was carried only in place of the crest, by that family, and other families descended
of it, witli the mottos, Amor patitur moras; and sometimes, / conquer or die, as in
Pout's Manuscript.
GILBERT LUMISDEN of Blenearn obtains a charter of these lands from John
Stewart Earl of Angus, his superior, in the reign of King David II.
It also appears, that the said Lumisdens of Blenearn were heritors of (lie lands
of Lumisden in the shire of Berwick, and were sometimes designed Lumisdens of
that Ilk, as by several charters and retours, and other documents, and particularly
by a charter granted by George Earl of Angus to David Lumisden, designed
therein, dilecto nostro consanguine') Davidi de Lumisden de eodejn, dated in the year
1454 : And by an instrument of division of the lands of Blenearn, wherein the said
David is designed, honorabilis armiger David L'.imisden de eodem, dated 24th of
February 1453. The family continued in the possession of the lands of Lumisden
till 1607, at which time the same were sold by David Lumisden of Blenearn to