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Clan Ralston (Tartans, Crest) and The Story Behind

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Ralston

CLan Crest: A falcon, Proper

Clan Motto: Fide Et Marte (With fidelity and bravery)

Origin of Name: Place name, Renfrewshire

Clan Chief: None, armigerous clan

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Ralston Clan History

This surname derives from the lands or barony of Ralston in Renfrewshire, near Paisley.

It is said that Ralph, the younger son of one of the Earls of Fife, received a grant from the High Steward of Scotland for the lands of Ralston; however, some have refuted these claims, claiming that the arms did not bear a lion rampant, the arms of the old Earls of Fife, but rather three acorns on a bend, implying that this person was of the same stock as those with the surname Muirhead.

Sir Anthony Lombard donated Fulton to the monks of Paisley in 1272, and Nicholas de Ralstoun was present. Nicholas was, incidentally, the first of the name Ralston to be recorded as a witness.

In 1296, Thomas de Raulfestone of Lanarkshire, along with many other Scottish nobles, signed the Ragman Roll in Berwick to pay homage to England's Edward I.

The election of the abbot of Paisley in 1346 was witnessed by Jacobus de Raulyston, dominus ejusdem, and in 1488, John Raleston, or Raliston, of that Ilk was one of the arbiters in a dispute over the burgh of Renfrew and the abbot of Paisley.

Robert Ralston was a clerk to the bishop of Caithness in 1504, and it was recorded that letters of reversion were witnessed by Robert Ralston in 1519.

Hugh de Ralston of Ralston was killed in the Battle of Pinkie in 1547, in a decisive English victory.

In 1705, the family sold the Ralston estate to Thomas Cochrane, the 8th Earl of Dundonald, and William Shedden Ralston (1828-1889) was a noted and distinguished Russian scholar and folklorist.

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Ralston Crest & Coats of Arms

Clan Ralston Crest

Properly described as a falcon.

Coats of Arms of Ralston:

A word about Coats of Arms:

A coat of arms is granted to an individual under Scottish heraldic law (with the exception of civic or corporate arms). A 'family coat of arms' does not exist. With the exceptions noted above, the arms depicted below are personal arms. Only the person who has been granted these weapons has the right to use them.