Re: IS THE MACFIE COAT OF ARMS A MAP TO FIND THE BURIAL PLACE OF KING KENNETH MA
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IS THE MACFIE COAT OF ARMS A MAP TO FIND THE BURIAL PLACE OF KING KENNETH MACALP
john mcphee 10/01/02
My dear friend , I hate to be the one to pull some of the wind from your sail as you have really put a poetic touch to the evaluation of the Macfie coat of arms.Howeverto be a bit more truthfull, there is none of what you have stated that can be associated with the shield itself.In 1864 one Robert Macfie who had been born in the family home at Langhouse, Inverkip, Scotland, a country mansion which had been constructed for the Campbell family, purchased by his grandfather Macfie and castleized by his father, decided thatas a wealthy middleclass gentleman THAThe should procure a Coat of Arms .As he had visited Colonsay, and knew some of the history of the Clanshe requested that certain symbols that he had seen on the grave stones on Colonsay be incorporated into his personal arms . Thus the Sword, and the galley .As to thePRO REGEwell from what I have read of the family records, this MOTTO was chosen from a set of books shown to a family member some time before 1864 and had been chosen to be used as a sealfor thier correspondence.NOWthe most common of the Macfie crestsused today are usually identified as - of Dreghorn -
and the Macfie of Dreghorn Armswere granted in 1867to Robert Andrew Macfie of Leith, who had by that timepurchased the Dreghorn Estatefrom the Trottier family and his armswere grated with of course the bearing on his cousin's Macfie arms which were the first granted by the Lord Lyon of Scotland.....So some of your mystic may be more imaginationthan you desire to acknowledge, BUT theMacfie arms are moreof a modern day desire of a rich gentleman attempting to create himself a place among the more affluent of that particular time.