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SKENE ARMS

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Officially Recorded in Scotland

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1) SKENE OF THAT ILK

2) Danus George Moncrieff
SKENE OF SKENE

1) Gules three daggers pale-ways Argent surmounted of as many wolves' heads couped Or.

2) Gules three dirks paleways Argent pommelled and hilted Or surmounted by as many wolves heads couped of the third.

1)Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1672-7
2) Burke's Landed Gentry Kingdom in Scotland
Lyon Court 20 Dec 1994

The family of Skene of Hallyards now represent the family of Skene of Skene.

SKENE OF HALLYARD
Gules three daggers Argent surmounted of as many wolves' heads couped Or, a crescent for difference. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1672-7

SKENE OF DYCE
Gules three daggers Argent surmounted of as many wolves' heads couped Or all within a bordure engrailed of the second. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1672-7

SKENE OF NEWTYLE
Gules three daggers Argent surmounted of as many wolves' heads couped Or a chief Azure. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1672-7

Blazoned in the Register "Parted per chief Azure and Gules etc…"

SKENE OF RAMORE
Gules three daggers Argent surmounted of as many wolves' heads couped Or all within a bordure invected of the second. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1672-7
SKENE OF EASTERFINTRAY
Gules a chevron Argent between three daggers of the second surmounted of as many wolves' heads couped Or tusked proper. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1672-7
SKENE OF PITLURG
Quarterly 1st & 4th Azure three boars' heads couped within a bordure Or 2nd Azure three garbs within a bordure Or (for Cumming of Birness) 3rd Gules three daggers Argent surmounted of as many wolves' heads couped Or within a bordure engrailed of the second.
Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1834

Andrew Skene of Dyce, the last male representative, left his estate of Dyce to his relative Lt-Gen John Gordon-Cuming of Pitlurg and Birness.