The families of Trotter of Kettleshiels and Browns of Calcutta and of Horton have
shared their respective core arms though none were cadets of any other member of their
extended families. This is not part of the major treatises on Scottish arms,
for instance Innes' "Scots Heraldry" or J H Stevenson's "Heraldry in Scotland" both
of which only treat of the arms of heads of families and their descendant cadets.
So I'll have to deduce what the practices appear to be for handling the heraldry of
related but not descendant members of such single families.
- The first rule is that, broad brush, the arms of the first armiger of a family
are retained unaltered by all relations. The only exception to this is the arms of
John Trotter of Shuddy Camps, where his chief was made to be engrailed rather than
indented. All other charges and tinctures for John's arms were identical to his
elder brother's.
- In all other cases the arms of the family relative were quartered with those
of some heiress the Trotter or Brown had married. Though in the case of Brown,
the first appearance of these arms was in a quartering and the later matriculation
was of these arms on their own.
- In three cases where the pair of quarterings were both adopted by cousins, they
all added a simple border to distinguish their family. This was for Sir Coutts
Trotter, bt, for Trotter of Haldane (where the Trotter arms were solely on an
inescutcheon of Pretence) and for Trotter of Brin.
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