Blair Coat of Arms & Family Crest - Symbols, Bearers, History

Blair “Family Crest” or Coat of Arms - Blair Family History & Surname For ancestry, genealogy research & heraldic merchandise, please visit: https://www.coadb.com Email: info@coadb.com Phone: 785-324-2529 11AM - 9PM (ET) 1) Blair of Blair, co. Ayrshire, Scotland descended from William de Blair who received a charter of the lands in 1205 – was represented in the early 19th century by William Blair Esq. (d. 1817), who had 5 sons and 7 daughters. 2) Blair of Avontoun – Henry Temple Blair Esq. (fl. 1876) of Avontoun, Scotland, son of William Blair, grandson of Robert Blair (1741-1811), an advocate and judge who served as Solicitor General for Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session, and great-grandson of Rev. Robert Blair (1699-1746), a poet, a descendant of Sir John Blair of Windyedge (d. 1666), a merchant and professor at the University of Glasgow, son of Bryce Blair of Lockwood (d. 1639) 3) Blair of Adamton or Adingtoun, co. Ayr – descended from Sir John Blair (c. 1352-1410), knighted by Robert II in 1390, received the lands and barony of Adamton from his father, second son of James Blair (d. 1370) of Blair – lineage ended in 1776 when Catherine, only daughter and heiress of David Blair of Adamton, Collector of Customs at Glasgow, married into the Maxwell family 4) Blair of Adamton, co. Ayr – found in manuscript dated c. 1542 5) Blair of Milgerholme, co. Ayr – James Blair of Milgerholme, Provost of Irvine 6) Blair of Balthayock, co. Perthshire, Scotland – progenitor was Patrick Blair (c. 1340-1405), possibly a son of David Blair, was granted the lands of Balthayock in Perthshire 7) Alexander Blair of France 8) Inchyra, co. Perth, Scotland, a cadet of Balthayock – progenitor was Andrew Blair, second son of Sir Thomas Blair of Baltyock, obtained from his father the lands and barony of Inchyra, and lived as a great royalist, accompanying King Charles II to the Battle of Worcester in 1651 9) Blair of Balmile or Balmill, a younger son of Balthayock – John Blair of Bamill 10) Blair of Lethenty, a cadet of Balthayock – George Blair of Lethendy – martlet is mark of cadency for a fourth son. There was a Patrick Blair (c. 1680-1728), botanist and surgeon, born at Lethendy, third son of George Blair (d. 1682), a farmer and his wife Euphame – there was a George Blair had domestic servants in 1679. There a Lethenty Castle built in the 16th century which was plundered in 1640 and 1645. 11) Patrick Blair, Armorial bookplate made after 1720 12) Blair of Overdurie – Laurence Blair of Overdurdy – there was a Laurence Blair, son of Alexander Blair (fl. 1579) and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Laurence Mercer, grandson of Thomas Blair of Balthyock, had a son named Alexander Blair who was a witness in the Gowrie conspiracy in 1600 13) Alexander Blair Esq. (1789-1859), Treasurer of the Bank of Scotland, son of William Blair, Captain in the 13th Regiment of Foot 14) matriculated in 1815 by Thomas Blair of Watton Grove, co. Surrey 15) Gilbert Blair, sometimes Dean of Guild of Aberdeen 16) John Hunter (1741-1787) in Ayr, Scotland, son of a merchant, his surname became Hunter-Blair upon his marriage to Jean Blair, the daughter and heiress of John Blair of Dunskey, co. Wigtownshire in 1770, Member of Parliament for Edinburgh in 1780, Lord Provost of Edinburg from 1784-1786, founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, awarded the Hunter-Blair baronetcy of Dunsky in the County of Wigtown in 1786 17) Blairquhan Castle – Sir David Hunter-Blair, 3rd Baronet, purchased the castle in 1798 18) William Henry Stopford-Blair (1788-1868), Lieutenant Colonel, assumed the additional surname of Blair upon succeeding to the Penninghame estate upon the death of his uncle James Blair in 1841, who was a Scots-Irish owner of plantations in the West Indies and a Member of Parliament 19) Blair of The Carse, co. Stirling, Scotland – found in armorial dated 1599 20) Arnaud de Blair, a lawyer who settled in Pau in southern France and became an adviser to the Parliament of Navarre in 1686 – possibly a descendant of David Blair who took refugee in France, thought to be the great-grandson of Alexander Blair, Knight of Balthayock who came to Bearn and taught theology at the academy of Orthez until his death in 1620 21) Blair de Boisemont - Louis Guilluame de Blair de Boisemont (1716-1778), Lord of Boisement, Cernay, and Courdimanche, State Councilor, son of Louis Francois de Blair, Lord of Cernay, Aunay, and counilor to the Grand Parliament of Paris, grandson of Melchoir Blair, great-grandson of Alexander Blair, Knight (d. 1674), and 2x great-grandson of Alexander Blair who married Marie de Remy Blair De Fayolle - Alexander de Blair (1644-1716), Lord of Fayolle 22) Melchior de Blair, Lord of Cernay – see previous slide 23) Magdelaine de Blair, wife of Henry d'Arros, Lord of Tinen (or Viven) and Auriac 24) du Blair of Dax, town in southern France, widow of Mr. Dorion 25) Orléanais, Ouainville, Mascheron