Kenneth Robert Seton of Nova Scotia

(proposal, not matriculated, click to continue)

There are yet to be officially listed or Matriculated, any Arms for Seeton's of Nova Scotia.

Arms : Quarterly: 1st and 4th Or, three crescents within a double tressure flory counter-flory Gules (Seton) 2nd and 3rd Argent, on a bar wavy enhanced (Or) a demi-otter issuant Sable and crowned Or (Meldrum); surmounted by an escutcheon Gules, a sword hilted and pomelled supporting an antique crown within a double tressure flory counter-flory Or (granted by special charge from King Robert to the Seton's before William 1st Lord Seton); all within a bordure engrailed Gules.

Crest : On a ducal coronet, A Wyvern Vert, wings elevated and sprouting fire proper.

Mantling: Gules and Or, charged with drops of gold.

Motto : Periculum Etiamnun Progressus

Matriculation : Not yet Matriculated.

My arms are differenced from those of Seton of Meldrum, which were matriculated circa 1535 in the name of William Seton, 5th of Meldrum.

The engrailment of the bordure marks the second son of William Seton 5th of Meldrum and Janet Gordon of Lesmoir, John Seton of Lumphart, Broomhill and 1st Mounie, who's eldest son William sold Mounie Castle to Sir Robert Farquhar.  John Seton's second son, also called John Seton (of Menie and Auquhorthies), was Chamberlain to the Earl of Dunfermline at Fyvie Castle and was the founding father of the branch of Setons which settled in Ulster Ireland through his grandson Alexander Seaton, who attended the University of Aberdeen and was a noted Quaker minister and who eventually settled in County Down, Ireland in 1699.  From Alexander's line descends the Seeton's of Nova Scotia which were founded by James Seeton and Martha Crawford of Ulster, which is my own branch.

The bordure Gules in the Arms places the family as a cadet branch of Seton of Meldrum. The Arms, quartering Seton and Meldrum, were first borne by Sir William Seton of Meldrum, the second son of Alexander Seton, 1st Lord Gordon, himself the second son of Sir William Seton, 1st Lord Seton. Sir William Seton of Meldrum died at the Battle of Brechin on May 18, 1452. The second son of the 1st Lord Gordon, in his marriage to Elizabeth Meldrum he founded the long dormant house (1635) of Seton of Meldrum who were once famous throughout the region of Aberdeenshire.  William Seton of Meldrum was also the brother of Alexander Seton 1st Earl of Huntly (who's son George had assumed the name of Gordon), and as such the Seton's of Meldrum were strong supporters of the Gordon's and were Chamberlains to the Earls of Huntly, as well as to the Earls of Dunfermline at Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire founded by the famed Chancellor of Scotland, Alexander Seton, Lord Urquhart and Lord Fyvie.

The Wyvern crest is the original emblem of the Seton's acquired by the Seton Family through marriage with the de Quincy heiress, and has been associated with the house ever since.  The motto PERICULUM ETIAMNUN PROGRESSUS is the latinized version of the ancient Seton family motto: Hazard Yet Forward; it reflect's the tradition of Nova Scotia of scots-latin in uses of naming and mottos, where the territory of Nova Scotia is the latin name for "New Scotland" in Canada and was so given it's name in a Charter first given by King James VI in 1625, and by which creation began the Scots hereditary Order of The Baronets of Nova Scotia of which there remains two Seton lines from the original creation, those of the Seton's of Abercorn and of Pitmedden.  The Seton's of Pitmedden are cadets of the Seton's of Meldrum.