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NESBITT ARMS

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Officially Recorded in Scotland

Arms
Armiger & House
Blazon
Source

Full Achievement
NESBITT OF THAT ILK
Argent three boars heads erased Sable, armed Argent and langued Gules. 1) Slains Armorial - 1565
2) Alexander Nisbet's A System of Heraldry 1722
3) Lyon Court - Mark Nesbitt of that Ilk - 2nd March 1995. Lyon Register, volume 78, folio 1
1) NISBETof Dean
2) Sir Patrick NISBETof Dean
Argent a chevron Gules between three boars' heads erased Sable. 1)Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.1672-7
2) Alexander Nisbet's A System of Heraldry 1722
1) NISBETof Dirleton
2) Sir John NISBETof Dirleton
1) Argent on a chevron Gules between three boars' heads erased Sable as many cinquefoils of the field in the honour point a thistle slipped Vert.
2) Argent, on a chevron Gules ensigned with a thistle Proper between three boars' heads erased Sable, three cinquefoils Argent
Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.
1st Matric 1680-7
2) Alexander Nisbet's A System of Heraldry 1722
Alexander NISBET
of Craigintinnie
Argent on a chevron Gules between three boars' heads erased Sable, three cinquefoils Argent. Alexander Nisbet's A System of Heraldry 1722
NISBET
of Greenholm
Argent three boars' heads erased within a bordure Sable. Alexander Nisbet's A System of Heraldry 1722
Alexander NISBET
Argent three boars' heads erased Sable within a bordure invected Gules. Alexander Nisbet's A System of Heraldry 1722
HAMILTON-NISBET
of Dirleton
1st & 4th Argent on a chevron Gules ensigned on top with a thistle proper between three boars' heads erased Sable as many cinquefoils of the first 2nd & 3rd Gules a sword paleways Argent between three cinquefoils of the second. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

1801

Elias NISBET
Merchant, Bourdeaux
Argent on a chevron indented Gules between three goats' heads erased Sable as many cinquefoils of the first. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

1861 Stacie

Robert Chancellor NESBITT
Argent three boars' heads erased Sable a bordure Or for difference. An Ordinary of Arms
Volume II 1902-1973

4th October 1933 30/73

North More NISBET
of the Drum
1st & 4th Argent three boars' heads erased within a bordure Sable an annulet of the last for difference 2nd Argent on a fess engrailed Azure three mullets of the field within a bordure engrailed of the second (More) 3rd Azure a hare salient Argent with a hunting horn about his neck Gules garnished and stringed Or on a chief of the second a sword fessways of the first hilted and pommelled of the fourth. An Ordinary of Arms
Volume II 1902-1973

8th November 1935 31/72

Other Nisbet/Nesbit Quarters Officially Recorded in Scotland

Arms
Armiger & House
Blazon
Source
Lady Mary Christopher Nisbet-Hamilton
Quarterly 1st & 4th Gules a sword paleways Argent between three cinquefoils of the last 2nd Argent on a chevron Gules ensigned with a thistle proper between three boars' heads erased Sable as many cinquefoils of the first 3rd Argent a chevron Gules between three pine apples proper a chief Sable. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

1885

Nisbet-Hamilton-Ogilvy
of Biel
1st & 4th Argent a lion passant guardant Gules gorged with an open crown and crowned with a close imperial one Or (for Ogilvy) 2nd & 3rd Argent an eagle displayed Sable beaked and membered Gules (for Ramsay) in chief on the quarters a crescent Gules over all an escutcheon of pretence quarterly i & iv Gules a sword paleways Argent between three cinquefoils of the second (for Hamilton) ii Argent on a chevron Gules ensigned on the top with a thistle proper between three boars' heads erased Sable as many cinquefoils of the first (for Nisbet) iii Argent a lion rampant Gules within a bordure Ermine (for Dundas). Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary.

1888

Officially Recorded in Canada

Arms
Armiger & House
Blazon
Source
Richard John Peter NESBITT
of the City of Duncan, British Columbia
Per fess rayonné Azure and Or on a pale counterchanged between two garbs Or in chief a Thistle flowered Purpure slipped and leaved Vert and in base a sword point upwards Argent hilt and pommel Or. Canadian Heraldic Authority, Ottawa, 22nd November 1993. Volume II, page 267

Emblazon courtesy of Sandy Turnbull
Eric Robert James NISBET-BROWN
of the City of Toronto
Purpure a tree eradicated composed per pale to the dexter of a sugar maple and to the sinister of an apple tree fructed all Copper. Canadian Heraldic Authority, Ottawa, 28th October 1996. Volume III, page 144

Recorded Elsewhere

Arms
Armiger & House
Blazon
Source/Notes
Francis NISBETT
of Derricairne, co. Leitrim
Argent a chevron Gules between three boars' heads erased Sable. Burke's Landed Gentry 1847
James Ezekiel NESBITT
of Woodhill, co Donegal
Argent a chevron Gules between three boars' heads Sable armed and guttant. Burke's Landed Gentry 1847
Alexander NESBITT
of Lismore House, Crossdoney, co. Cavan
1st & 4th Argent a chevron Gules between three boars' heads erased Sable (for Nesbitt) 2nd & 3rd Argent on a chevron between three leopards' faces Sable a crescent of the field on a canton Or a saltier Vert between a cross-crosslet in chief and a dexter hand couped at the wrist in base Gules on the dexter side a lizard erect and on the sinister side a salmon haurient of the fourth (for Cosby). Burke's History of the Landed Gentry 1879
1) Robert Parry NESBITT
of Southbroome House, Devizes
2) NISBET of CARFIN
Argent three boars' heads erased Sable within a bordure invected Gules. 1)Burke's History of the Landed Gentry 1879
2)John A. Inglis (1916) The Nisbets of Carfin
John More NISBETT
of Cairnhill, Airdrie, Lanark
Argent three boars' heads erased Sable. Burke's History of the Landed Gentry 1879