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You can see the arms at http://www.bng.nl/ngw/int/gbr/scot/aberdee.htm.
Graham Bartram, 17 January 2001
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25 June 2021
Presentation of Coat of Arms and Flag to Aberchirder and Marnoch Community
Council on Saturday 11 September 1999.
http://www.foggieloan.co.uk/42arms/coat_of_arms.htm
"The Origin of
the Arms:
In 1998 Robert Bremner, the last of the fourteen Provosts of the
Burgh of Aberchirder, made enquiries as to whether Aberchirder had ever obtained
a coat of arms, and discovered that it had not.
Designing the Arms:
Aberchirder and Marnoch Community Council then applied for a coat of arms. With
the assistance of Charles Burnett, Ross Herald at the court of the Lord Lyon,
and heraldic expert Gordon Casely, a group of members of the Community Council
and the Local History Group produced a set of draft designs which incorporated
emblems representing three of the key periods in the history of Aberchirder and
Marnoch. After public consultation one of the draft designs was adopted and an
application was made to the Lord Lyon, King of Arms, who granted Letters Patent
in November 1998. These describe the arms in heraldic terms as follows: Tierced
in pairle reversed; 1st Or, two croziers in saltire Azure; 2nd Azure, a boar’s
head couped Or; and 3rd Argent, a cross pattee Azure.
Two croziers
represent St Marnan, a Celtic missionary who founded the parish of Marnoch in
the 7th century.
A boar’s head represents Alexander Gordon of Auchintoul who
founded the town in 1764.
A cross pattee was used on the burgh seal of the
Town Council which existed from 1890 until 1975.
The motto Aye Foggieloan
perpetuates the traditional name for the town.
The Presentation:
The formal presentation of the Letters Patent to Aberchirder and Marnoch
Community Council took place on Saturday 11 September 1999 in the Square, the
traditional location for celebration of national and local events. A parade of
local people, headed by the Turriff Pipe Band and a detachment of thirty Lonach
Highlanders in full uniform bearing pikes marched through the streets from
McRobert Park to the Square, where invited dignitaries and guests were seated on
and around a dais. After Leslie Chalmers, the Chairman of the Community Council,
had made a speech of welcome, Ross Herald proclaimed the grant of arms which he
then handed over to the Chairman of the Community Council. A flag bearing the
arms produced by Dr Patrick Barden, Scotland’s leading heraldic flagmaker, was
broken by ex-Provost Bremner accompanied by 11-year-old Gary Harris and then
blessed by Rev Alison Jaffrey. Thereafter the salute was taken by James
McPherson, the Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire, and the parade marched down Main
Street and along North Street to the Memorial Hall. Here the community was
treated to refreshments and a display, organised by the Local History Group, of
items relating to the symbols on the coat of arms. The Letters Patent were also
put on view. The flag is now flown at all community events."
Valentin
Poposki, 25 June 2021
