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This site was updated on the 14 June 2005 and new information can be found by looking at the Latest News page.  A search facility has also been incorporated to enable you to locate items of interest. Our Photo Album page has also been modified so do check it out and look out for the ''NEW'' photographs for this year.

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The Dumbreck Coat of Arms

The earliest Scottish armorial M.S. the Foreman-Workman M.S., of 1562 shows the arms of "Drumbrak of that Ilk" as an otter seizing a salmon, with two fleur-de-lys in chief, (as represented at the top of this page) however the date of this M.S. the line of "that ilk" had died out with Thomas Dumbreck, who was killed at the battle of Pinkie on the 10th September 1547. If you wish to see the original image (photographed recently in 2002) from the University Library Aberdeen  click here

Dumbreck (Edinburgh) Armorial

The above reproduction (kindly supplied by Margaret Phillips, Australia) and drawn by her late mother Jean Christina Dumbreck, shows:- Argent, wolf passant, sable, transfixed with a sword proper, within a bordure gules - Crest, a dexter hand holding a sword in pale and on the point thereof a boars head couped proper - Motto "Nocentes Prosequor".

SYMBOLISMS OF HERALDRY

The Wolf: is a very ancient and uncommon bearing.  It is said to denote those valiant captains that do in the end gain their attempts after long sieges and hard enterprises.

The Sword: is a weapon fitted for execution and justice.

The Hand: is a pledge of faith and sincerity.

The Boar: this wild animal takes a great deal of its symbolic significance from Norse mythology, and to it were attributed the qualities of courage and fertility.  Over the centuries, the boar has become associated with bravery and perseverance.


The Dumbreck "clan" would appear to have been first mentioned near Ellon in Aberdeenshire around 1348 and in fact the site where the Dumbreck Castle stood can still be seen at Mains of Dumbreck Farm near Pitmedden. Click here to see the location map of the Castle.

There are several other Dumbreck place names in Scotland. Probably the best known is the residential area of Glasgow on the south side of the river Clyde between Ibrox and Bellaheuston. This took its name from the house known as Dumbreck House built about 1770, and at one time was the residence of Alexander Dumbreck a sugar refiner in Glasgow. The land belonging to it must have been of considerable extent as part of the area is still called Dumbreck.

Other Dumbreck names to be found are, a hill in the Campsie Fells north of Strathblane, Glasgow and the DUMBRECK NATURE RESERVE, situated in the central belt of Scotland in the Kelvin Valley, the Dumbreck Marsh is one of a series of wetlands that lie in the flood plain of the River Kelvin which supports a large bird population.. The reserve is a good place for both bird watching and nature walks. For further information on the KELVIN VALLEY see Links of Interest page.

A short history of the
DUMBRECK'S of ABERDEENSHIRE and MORAYSHIRE can be viewed on the
historical info page.

A family tree has been created starting with an entry of John Dumbreck, Baron of Barmuckity circa 1460 and has been developed to include names of family members from then 'til the present time. Obviously as further information is gathered this family tree will expand and will become more informative.

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