Chisholm

Copyright ©1995-2015 by Celtic Studio CREST: A dexter hand holding erect a dagger Proper, the point thereof transfixing a boar's head erased Or, armed Proper, langued Azure. MOTTO: Feros ferio TRANSLATION: I am fierce with the fierce. PLANT: Fern GAELIC NAME: Siosal ORIGIN OF NAME: Place name Roxburghshire. PIPE MUSIC: Chisholm's March

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Chisholm  It is claimed by some writers that the Chisholms are of Celtic origin others claim that the clan came from the Borders and are of Norman origin. Sir Robert Gordon designates as Chisholm the Thane of Caithness who lived in the latter part of the 12th century. Perhaps this Highland clan takes its name from the homely English term Cheese-holm, which was planted in the parish of Roberton in Roxburghshire at some time after the British kingdom of Gododdin was overrun by the English of Northumbria in the 7th century. During the Norman takeover it was promoted to be the name of a feudal barony and so the name of Alexander of Chisholm appears among the witnesses to a charter in 1249. The border Chisholm's of Chisholm continued until the extinction of the family in 1899. In 1359 Sir Robert Chisholm of Chisholm succeeded his maternal grandfather as constable of the royal stronghold which guards the pass to the western Highlands at the Urquhart peninsula or Loch Ness. This provided the opportunity for his eldest son Alexander to marry the heiress of Erchless and Comar. His younger son continued the house of the border Chisholm's, while Thomas, son of Alexander and Margaret of Erchless, became the first Chisholm Chief of the clan which occupied Strathglass and Glen Cannich during the next four centuries. The clan remained Catholic but the chiefs changed their religion, and consequently did not support the Jacobite risings in the 18th century. So their clansmen remained safely in Strathglass and Glen Cannich until their own chiefs evicted them in the 19th century. There had been extensive emigration from the Chisholm country to North America, both before and after the War of Independence there, as there was in many parts of the Highlands. It was caused partly by a rise in population and partly by increased rents. Alexander, the 23rd Chief, died in 1793 leaving his widow and a daughter. When leases expired in 1810, a lowland grazier, Thomas Gillespie, settled with his sheep in the lands of Strathglass from which the Chisholm's were evicted by their own Chief. Alastair Chisholm of Chisholm (b 1920) is the present chief.

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