Cockburn Clan - Family Crest 1930's Vintage Bonnet Badge

Cockburn Clan - Family History. The surname derives from a place name near Duns, in Berwickshire.  However, there is also some debate over it having originated from the Scots word for cuckoo, there having been a 'Cuckoo Burn' or 'Gowk's Burn,' close to the Abbey of Melrose in Roxburghshire, with which the Cockburn family had an association.

MOTTO - Accendit cantu - He excites us with song

BLAZON - A Cock Crowing.

SOURCE - Fairbairn's Book of Crests, 1905 ed.

Size approx. 40mm x 48mm

Surname distribution in Scotland: The Cockburn surname is most commonly found in The Scottish Borders (Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire and part of Midlothian), Edinburgh City and the Lothians (Linlithgowshire, Edinburghshire, Haddingtonshire).

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