Re: Need Help Finding Family Crest,Tarten!!!
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Need Help Finding Family Crest,Tarten!!!
3/01/99
Hi Charles,
This is the Information given to me from the Museum in Edinburgh I visited while in Scotland.
The Clan : DALZIEL (DALZELL)
Origin:CELTIC
The Chief: EARL OF CARWATH
Motto: I DARE
Crest: UPRIGHT DAGGER
Gaelic Name: DAILGHIL
History:
The name is said to come from the Barony of Dalzell in Lanarkshire.It originates from the Gaelic "Dailgheal", meaning "white valley or meadow".
The name first appears officially in 1259 when the Baron of Daleil signed an inquest.Another appears in 1288 as Hugh de Dalyhel, sheriff of Lanark.
In 1508 William Dalzell of that Ilk was killed in Dumfries in a fracas between the Maxwells and Crichtons.
The Dalzell's were Royalists.The Laird of Dalzell fought for Mary Queen of Scots at Langside.In 1633 Sir Robert Dalzell became Lord Dalzell, and in 1649 the Earl of Carnwath.He lost his estates by supporting Charles I.Both he and his brother Sir John of Glenae, were captured at Worcester, along with their cousin, Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, who escaped to the Continent and joined the army of the Czar of Russia.He fought the Tartars and the Turks.
In 1666 Dalyell of the Binns defeated the Covenanters at Rullion Green in the Pentlands.The prisoners from this battle were treated very badly and many were shipped to the American plantations.As with all enemies of the Covenaters Dalyell was said to be in league with the Devil.He was called "the bluidy Moscovite" and the "Muscovy Beast".A devoted Royalist, he didn't shave his beard after the execution of Charles I.
The Dalyells were Jacobites, but were pardoned.One of Tam Dalyell's grandsons was captain of the Edinburgh City Guard in 1745 when Princes Charles Edward's army captured the city.
In 1703 the main line died out and the Glenae branch became the heirs.
The earldom was restored to Robert Dalzell, a lieutenant general in the army, in 1826.
The 15th Earl died in 1941 and the earldom is now dormant.The Binns baronetcy is one of the few than can come down in the female line.The House of Binns is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland.
Tam Dalyell, a prominent member of the Labour Party, is the present occupant of the Binns.Author of "Devolution - The End of Britain", he campaigned vigorously against the formation of a Scottish Assembly in the 1979 Referendum.