. The parish of Strathblane and its inhabitants from early times : a chapter in Lennox history. distinct or worn off on some old seal which John Stirling may have sent to the Lyon Office when he registered his arms. The mistake, however it was made, is discreditable to the Lyon of the day. The stags head on the button is couped not cabossed, and in Sir David Lindsays Heraldic Manuscript, page 97, it is so given, but there seems little doubt that the proper bearing is a stags head cabossed.—Ste Scottish Arms, R. R. Stodart, vol. ii. p. 188, and Nisbets Heraldry, vol. i. p. 335. ^ Account of nav
. The parish of Strathblane and its inhabitants from early times : a chapter in Lennox history. distinct or worn off on some old seal which John Stirling may have sent to the Lyon Office when he registered his arms. The mistake, however it was made, is discreditable to the Lyon of the day. The stags head on the button is couped not cabossed, and in Sir David Lindsays Heraldic Manuscript, page 97, it is so given, but there seems little doubt that the proper bearing is a stags head cabossed.—Ste Scottish Arms, R. R. Stodart, vol. ii. p. 188, and Nisbets Heraldry, vol. i. p. 335. ^ Account of naval and military banquet held in Glasgow, 2lst June, 1849. 2 James Burden of Feddal was the last male of a very ancient Perthshire family. He hadthree daughters—(i) Margaret, who died without issue; (2) Anne, who married Robert Camp-bell of Torry, a cadet of Dunstaffnage; and (3) Elizabeth, who married John James Burdens death his eldest daughter, Margaret, succeeded to his estate. On herdeath in 1772 her niece, Agnes Campbell, her sister Annes daughter, succeeded. She had. THE LIVERY BUTTON OF JOHNSTIRLING OF CRAIGBARNET. THE KIRKLANDS OF STRATHBLANE. 141 The new Craigbarnet, true to the instincts of the fine race from which hesprang, had chosen the military profession, and in the trenches before Sebas-topol, and at the final assault on the great fortress, where he led the gallant42nd, proved by his actions that the house of Craigbarnet, though old, was noteffete, and that he, like all his ancestors, was well entitled to the proud mottoof the family, Semper fidelis —Ever faithful. Major Graham Stirling married at Ballagan in Strathblane, 2nd December,1856, Elizabeth Agnes, elder daughter of the late Robert Dunmore Napier ofBallikinrain; and has an only child, Caroline Frances, born 1857, and whomarried loth January, 1883, George H, Miller, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy,third son of the late James B. Miller of Muirshiels, Renfrewshire.^ Having thus brought
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