Stott
Coat of Arms
FROM THE BURKE'S PEERAGE
WORLD BOOK OF STOTTS: THE STOTT COAT OF ARMS HEREBY ILLUSTRATED IS OFFICIALLY DOCUMENTED IN BURKE'S
GENERAL ARMOURY. THE TRANSLATED DESCRIPTION OF THE ARMS (SHIELD) IS AS FOLLOWS:
"ERMINE; ON A NATURALLY COLOURED ROCK IN BASE, A RED LION ATTACKING; ON A BLUE WAVY
UPPER THIRD, A GOLD STAR BETWEEN TWO SILVER CIRCLES, THE RIGHT ONE CHARGED WITH A
NATURALLY COLOURED SWORD WITH GOLD HILT AND POMMEL PLACED VERTICALLY AND THE LEFT ONE
CHARGED WITH A BLACK ANCHOR."
ABOVE THE SHIELD AND HELMET IS THE CREST WHICH IS DESCRIBED AS: "ISSUING OUT OF WAVES
OF THE SEA, A HALF BULL-DOG; ALL NATURALLY COLOURED; AROUND ITS NECK AND DRAPED OVER ITS
BACK IS A GOLD LOG LINE, HOLDING BETWEEN ITS PAWS, A NATURALLY COLOURED OAK WREATH WITH
ACORNS."
Debrett's and Burke's Peerages Errors in Burke's Peerage
Another Point of View about the Stott Clan
I
just got your email address when I was led to it from a Stott page I was viewing
and I am unsure whether the shield and crest was contributed by you... and it is
reputed to be from Burkes Peerage .... (which is not a document any Real Scot
gives much creedence to) but that coat of arms is absolute hogwash and is
certainly not in anyway associated with the Stott history. The Stott crest is a
Blue Martlet bird with the motto “alta petit” (aim at high things)...
We
have a Stott history in Aberdeen going back to the 1500's and the coat of arms
which goes back more than 800 years is a quite simple affair that I will send
you a picture of later.... but I am off to Europe after tomorrow for about 10
days... it has three red gules on 3 gold vertical bands and a red heart above in
the nape.
You
have to remember that ALL old Scottish crests were fairly simple affairs (and
they had to be ..... so that they could be replicated) as they were mainly
painted on to identify their troops in battle. With the greatest respect that
shield may have been drawn with good intentions but that is certainly nothing
like the real STOTT shield.
The
original Stott family was despised (and feared) by the English because it was
fiercely patriotic and it was the same Stott family that fought and supported
Wallace and Bruce and it is the same family who were hounded, persecuted,
slaughtered & ethnically cleansed by the English occupying force for
centuries and they were one of about 100 Scottish Clans followers of Scottish
monarchy who they tried to completely obliterate.
Like
so many famous historic Scottish names they changed distorted their crests, the
spelling of their names.... they humiliated them by issuing derogatory &
demeaning histories to replace the real history. Quite often they would say that
a family originated from some part of England ( a real insult to a patriot) but
the only Stotts that may have been in England before 1300 were the ones who
stayed on to manage the lands captured from them when Wallace moved south to
York sweeping all before him.
Another
ploy to try and demean the warrior clans .... that they frequently used .....
was to give a name eg Stott a derogatory meaning eg because they looked after
the cattle or the man who is a servant or a traitor, informer etc etc and to
this day many Scottish surnames have this propaganda still falsely attached to
their name.
However
the English couldn't read the Gaelic nor did they understand it and their great
failure, when they invented new spellings of the names and titles, deeds etc and
gave them to their friends (and collaborators) ... was that they did not know
that there were only 19 letters in the Gaelic alphabet and so MORE than half the
supposedly genuine CLAN names (still in existence) now are absolutely phoney.
Similarly they mocked the great chiefs... they put Mac (meaning Son of) front of
their name and called that the Official Clan because they were often able to
manipulate (blackmail) the young sons who had been captured with the mothers and
family when they were sent to a safe haven by the warring chiefs.... and famous
Clans like Donald, Dougal, Ronald etc etc became MacDonald and MacDougall etc
etc to try and embarrass the chiefs.... and often when you see a professed
GENUINE Scottish name with a J , K or W etc in the spelling ... be sure that it
is an English name not a Scottish one because the letters dont exist in the
alphabet of the mother tongue.
Yet
when this is pointed out to the present Clan Chiefs they ignore it. You must
remember that since 1707 that the crown is still English, the overseers are
English and the phoney Clan Chiefs are descended from the ones the English put
into power and so the myth is still perpetuated. We will of course never know
the whole; absolute truth but we do know the crests and coat of arms of
Stott are originally from this land and they bear no resemblance to the shield
you have on display. Anyone who informs you to the contrary is wrong.
Dallas's Family Tree STOTT Photo Album Sergeant Thomas STOTT - ANZAC Digger