Clan Chisholm Society, Canada Branch
  

Chisholm Modern

Chisholm Hunting

CREST: Gules a boar's head couped Or langued Azure

MOTTO: Feros ferio: I am fierce with the fierce

NAME VARIANTS: any and all spellings of the name are accepted.

A Short History:
Tradition states that the Chisholms were a Norman family who arrived in England after the Norman conquest of 1066. The original Norman name being De Chese to which the Saxon term "Holme" was added upon the marriage of a Norman ancestor to a Saxon heiress. In early records the name is written as "de Cheseholme", eventually later becoming Chisholm. In Scotland the earliest recorded person of the family is on the Ragman Rolls as "Richard de Chisholm del Counte de Rokesburgh", referring to the Clan Chisholm's seat in Roxburghshire.

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