Lindesay family genealogy
[1] Of Loughry and Tullahogue,[2] County Tyrone
Arms: Gules, a fesse chequée, argent and azure; three mullets in chief, of the second, and a crescent ppr. in base. Crest: A swan, ppr. standing, his wings closed. Motto: Love but (without) dread.
This family is descended from the ancient house of the Lords Lindesay of the Byres (a house now represented by the earl of Lindesay), which family descends from the common ancestor of the present earl of Crawford and Balcarres; and the Lords Spynie (title extinct), but which house was in 1880 represented by H. A. Lindsay-Carnegie, of Spynie and of Kimblethmont, county Forfar, Scotland.
When enumerating the families that have sprung from the house of Byres, Lord Lindsay, in his “Lives of the Lindsays,” thus speaks of the Loughry branch:
“Of the remaining branches of the House of Byres none now survive in wealth or estate, except the families of Loughry, in the county of Tyrone, and of Drum, and Craigballe, otherwise styled of Cahoo.”—See Lives of the Lindsays, Vol. I., pp. 320, 441, and Vol. II, p. 297. Also Vol. I., pp 318, 325, 385.
(For further information respecting this family, see pp. 474-477 of the Third Edition of our Irish Pedigrees.)
Notes
[1] Lindesay: In some public records this name is rendered Lindsay, Lindsey, Linzey, Lyndsay, Lyndsey, Lynsey, and Linesay: but each of these names implies a distinct branch of the family.—for an enumeration of the different ways of spelling the name, see Lord Lindsay’s Lives of the Lindsays.
[2] Tullaghoge: This place, now called “Tullahogue,” was part of the ancient patrimony of the O’Hagans, who were lawgivers of the O’Neills, Princes of Tirowen; and from that place the late Right Hon. Lord O’Hagan derived his title as “Baron of Tullaghoge.”