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SCOTT t 118-1923 Being a Collection of "Scott" pe<.H~rees containing all known 111ale descendants f ro111 Buccleuch, Sinton. Harden, Balweary, etc. COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY F.S.A. (Scot.) WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY The Master of Polwarth. Captain The Hon. W. T. HEPBURNE-SC(Jr~r, Younger of Harden. Illustrated by ~IR. A. G. LAW SAMSON, Writer l(J the Ly<,tl <Jffic~. THE BCRKE PC'BLISHIXG C(J:\f l'A}.Y, L'II>., 43, ST. ~IAR'tJ.s's LAs~, J.o:d,,,:-r, VI.C.2. !'TP.Wc>.s1'r,v..- r; f-<>-r.-rns ~: T. li{. r7~rER.Sf>,, P~f'1'Tr-!.i<, u, ;,,r,1,!?,1,"1 Y1,4t;',t,, FIRST EDI'tION, N OVRMBKR, 1923, CONSISTING OF TWENTY PRESENTA'tION COPIJ!S IN Fur,J., MOROCCO, N uu1bered I-20, AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIRS (CLO'l'H) Numbered 21-170 of which this is _,-1 No. 7 ~1: SCOTT u 1118 ~~etta r~~ 1923 _,~ I#.-eot. '5'.hrl. ~ Hon.Lord Po~, e.B.B ❖ J.P. ❖ DL,. -'r- Dedicated by permissiqrt to The Right Honourable WALTER GEORGE HEPBURNE-SCOTT, c.n.E., Fifteenth ·Laird of Harden, and Ninth Baron Polwarth, in the Peerage of Scotland .. INTRODUCTION. WO Hundred and Forty-two years have passed since that " Old Souldier and no T Scholler," Captain Walter Scot of Satchells, published his inin1itable rhyming history of the "Right Honourable Na111e of Scot," and now another historian of the family has arisen in the person of Captain Keith Scott, "\\'ho also may be called an " Old Souldier," inasmuch as he played his part in the greatest war of all time. Captain Scott has not fallowed the exan1ple .of his predecessor and 'Yri tten his history in verse, but he has set forth his pedigrees in a n1uch clearer and 1nore concise forn1, adhering rigidly to genea logical details. He has produced a book which is of very great interest, not only to all the families concerned, but also to all students of Border History, and to genealogists in general. The histories of the titled and principal land owning families are included in ,vorks such as Peerages and Burke's "Landed Gentry," and are accessible to the public, but there are nu1nerous other families, with pedigrees just as long and as interesting, and it is in these that the great int~rest of this book lies. Captain Scott has taken infinite pains in collecting and tracing such pedigrees back to the parent stems and it is greatly to be hoped that the publication of this book may lead to the tracing of other branches, and provide clues for connecting . lX B X INTRODUCTION. these with the older lines. The majority of Border Scotts are probably descended fron1 one or other of the three 1nain branches into which, as will be seen, the family is divided, and it is regrettable that, largely through lack of interest in the subject, the connecting links have in 1nany cases been lost. It is hoped that any who can provide further informa tion relative to the subject "·ill send it to the compiler and thus provide material for the possible future publication of a supplen1entary volume. Captain Scott has made a notable contribution to the list of Scottish Genealogical ,vor ks, and sincere thanks are due to him for the thorough 111anner in which he has carried out his task. Harden, January, 1923. PREFACE. A S its title implies this book is a collection of " Scott " pedigrees connected together in order of seniority, and intended to include as far as possible all male descendants of the founder of the family. The genealogies are taken from various editions of Burke, from Douglas, Satchells,* Dr. William Scott's " Scott of Stakoe," Mr. Winning' s notes in the fifth edition of · Satchells, Mr. c·raig Brown's History of Selkirk, Major Tancred's "Annals of a Border 1Club," Mr. Grant's'' Zetland Families," and from similar works of reference amplified by research into Parish Registers, in which I have been assisted by Mr. H. M. Paton of Edinburgh, and also in some cases by information supplied to me by members of the various families. I have also gratefully to acknowledge assistance and advice from ·Captain The Hon. The l\.1aster of Pol warth, and Mr. F. J. Grant, W.S., Rothesay Herald, both of whom have perused th_e collection in draft farm and were instrumental in obtaining additional . data. Where the pedigrees contained in this collection differ from the works of reference mentioned above, I have only tampered \vith the latter when there has been no doubt that they have been wrong or incom- =t" A true historv of several I-Iononrable Families of the Rig-ht Honourable name df Scot," by Captain Walter Scott of Satchells. Original edition 1688, second edition Edinburgh 1776, third edition Hawick 1786, fourth edition 1892, fifth edition Hawick 1894, edited by Mr. John G. Winning. Xl .. XU PREFACE . plete. Note for instance that Walter Scott, tenant in Baillieknowe, did not marry Barbara Makdou.gal as stated in some editions of Burke. Where possible, I have put into pedigree form the genealogies given by Captain Walter Scott of Satchells, and placed them in their proper place in this book. Many of these are necessarily sketchy and stop at the time of Satchells' book, namely I 688; where they are unsupported by other works they must be accepted with considerable reserve. There may be families living who can connect with these pedi grees, and for this purpose I propose leaving some blank pages at the end. Before commencing the genealogy a few words are desirable on the general scheme and method of com piling; on the heraldry of the family; and also on the chieftainship of the ·Clan. With regard to the general scheme, the method is the same as that adopted by Burke, except that every branch of over two male generations (in some cases of two generations only), has been given a separate heading. Male descent only is given, but when a family that has been traced for several generations in the male line becomes extinct the present representa tive (or representatives) where known in the -female line are given; for example the Buccleuch line is given step by step to Mary and Anna, and then a brief note explains that this family is now represented in the female line by the present Duke. Daughters are entered under each individual entry after sons ·as in the case of Burke's publications. Husband's names will be given where known, but not particulars of issue. The Scott family naturally falls into three parts, and for the sake of convenience I have so divided these genealogies, with an additional part for families that are probably connected with the main branch but of which the exact connecting link is lost, PREFACE. Xlll In the case of each family or cadet I have given the arms of the head of that branch where I know they have been matriculated.* Those families to which I have assigned no arms are probably without right in arms unless they have been matriculated since August, 1922. t I have also in one or two cases entered the arms that are on record to extinct families. With regard to the heraldry of the family, Sir Richard Scott's arms were, according to tradition, "or, two mullets in chief and a crescent in base azure," and on his marriage with the heiress. of Inglis of Murdie stoun, whose arms were probably "or, a bend azure," he adopted her arms and displayed his stars and crescent on the bend, probably as in fig. II.t There was no very strict heraldic law in force in Scotland until early in the seventeenth century, and various members of the family seem to have rung the changes on the different methods of charging the bend. The clan arms given by Mr. R. Armstrong in his " History of Liddesdale" are as shown in fig. IV. The seals of six generations of the Buccleuch family from 1449 to 1568 are consistently as fig. III. In spite of this, however, a Scott of Buccleuch is noted in 1542 as bearing fig. VIII., in 1550 as fig. IV., and in 1562 as fig. V.; this latter was the father of the first Lord Scott of Buccleuch. The first Earl reverted to fig. III., and Francis, second Earl, adopted a star of six points between · two crescents (fig. IX.) Anna, before marriage, bore as fig. VIII., and after marriage as an escutcheon of pretence, fig. III., and later, after the attainder of Monmouth, as fig. IX. •Most readers will know that coat-armour of Scottish origin descends to the el<lest son and lhat younger sons and their descendants are not armigerous until they matricu late at Lyon Office with "due and proper difference.'' The rule in England is different, all male descendants of the grantee being armig-erous but in order to retain recog-nition of right in arms by the Heralds' College, pedigrees should be recorded a11d kept up to date by at least every second generation. A great grandson of a grantee or of a man whose arms were on record would not be officially recognised as annigerous without proof of descent being given and recorded. +All descendants in the male line of the Rev. J. '\V. Napier-Clavering are armigerous, his arms having been exemplified at the Heralds' Colleg-e, likewise all the male descendants of Mr. John Scott, Morpeth.