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This em ail was sent to another ` ` Scottish" website by Rick Stirling. Dear Sirs, A search on your websit e for Clan Stirling brings up Clan MacGregor. This is incorrect. Clan Stirling is not a sept of any other clan. Clan Stirling traces its chiefly heritage back t o the 12th century to Thoraldus de Strivelyn Vicecom es de Strivelyn in the reign of Edgar and David I of Scotland The association with Clan MacGregor is purported to have occured during the tim e that the MacGregors were proscribed by law in the 17th - 18th century. I t is said that som e of the MacGregor clan t ook refuge with the Stirlings of Keir for prot ection. Aft er the proscription was lifted, t hese MacGregors continued to use the nam e of Stirling. Recently ( 1929 ) the Lord Lyon of Scotland recognized this relationship by granting the Stirlings of Fairburn arm s which incorporate the Stirling's bend and buckles suitably differenced, with the addition of the MacGregor charges. (see arm s below) The current Chief of the Nam e of Clan Stirling is Francis Stirling of Drum pellier, presently residing in London. Many old Scottish fam ilies can trace their lineage back t o Thoraldus de Strivelyn. The Crawfords, the Royal Stewarts, the Lindsays and the Ruthvens to nam e a few. The Clan Stirling m otto is "GANG FORW ARD" The Clan Stirling badge is a "Out of a ducal coronet, or, a hart's head, azure " Arm s granted in the 13th century, over 800 years ago, to a Stirling are "argent, on a bend sable, three buckles or" The Stirlings of Fairburn arm s grant ed in 1929 with the bend engrailed for differencing - m odifed in 1955 as shown .

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