Kirkpatrick family connections to the world
Posted by Dawn-Ann on October 15, 2008
Me at Closeburn Castle, which is still occupied by Kirkpatricks! Technically, I think I was trespassing onto a personal driveway, but we just took quick pictures and left.
I have been tracing my family tree and on a recent trip to Scotland managed to gather scads of material that I still need to sift through and enter into my database. However, there is a gap between our Kirkpatricks and the lords and knights of old. I think I have found the missing link, but it still needs some verification – hopefully I’ll find that in the above-mentioned scads of material.
If my links are sound and we really are descended from the Kirkpatricks of old (a probability, as there weren’t a lot of them back then and theoretically we are ALL descended from them), then that also ties us in to a couple of royal lines. For instance, Euphemia de Bruce of the royal Bruce line of Scotland, married Ivone Kirkpatrick back in the 1200’s sometime. As well, Lady Margaret de Sommerville, who was a daughter of the Royal House of Stuarts, married Sir Roger Kirkpatrick in about 1508.
The Kirkpatrick motto on the last standing wall of the old Closeburn church.
My trip was full of happy coincidences and at least once I said aloud, “These Kirkpatricks want their story told.” Maybe I’m just the gal to do it.
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What does the inscription under the motto say? Thanks, Carol Kolb gc3733@aol.com
Hi Carol. According to a publication I bought at the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society, it says:
“In loving memory of William Kirkpatrick born at Dundrennan, Kirkcudbrightshire 20 February 1817, died at his residence Dundrennan House, Wallsall, Staffordshire 4 December 1887 during the second year of his Mayoralty —– where every inhabitant mourned his loss. (Mural above inscription panel) has Kirkpatrick coat of arms with motto I Mak Siccar.”