{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use British English|date=July 2015}} {{notability|date=August 2015}} '''Clan Crozier''' (crosier, croser, cros, etc.) is one of the [[Border Reiving|border reiving]] clans of Scotland, along with the [[Clan Armstrong|Armstrongs]], [[Clan Elliot|Elliots]], and Nixons. Some sources cite the surname as a sept of the Armstrong clan, but the [[Scottish Parliament]] in 1587 identified the Croziers as a middle [[march (territorial entity)|march]] clan.Great Britain III Acts of the Parliament of Scotland pp.466-7 (1587) An [[armigerous clan]] is a clan without a chief, and a [[sept]] is a clan which follows a chief. So an armigerous clan like Clan Armstrong, since it does not have a chief, does not have septs. Clan Crozier, not having a chief by the [[Lord Lyon King of Arms]], is an armigerous clan allied with the far more populous [[Clan Armstrong]]. ==Name evolution== Croyser, Croiser, Crosier, Crozier. Many of the earlier forms of the name were of Croyser or Crosier (of Cros), had a common English language switch of an "y" for an "i". The name basically was Croyser then Croiser, which means cross; one who lives near or bears one.''Middle English Dictionary'', Vol 1&2 by Hans Kurath. Croyser or Crosier has Old French origins, of Roman Christianity the name Croyser, then Croiser has also Old Scottish influence evolved from the Old French of, Croice, Crois(e, n. Also: croyce, croys(e). [ME. croice, croyce, crois, croys, croyz (14–15th c.), OF. crois, croiz. Cf. Croce n.1] An earlier form of the word, which is croy for the Croyser name; Cro, Croy, n.1 Sc. and Ir. Gaelic cró fold, hut, Icel. kró sheepfold. Latinized as croa, croya (12th c.).[http://www.dsl.ac.uk Dictionary of the Scots Language Dictionar o the Scots Leid] The meaning referring to hut, which developed the name Croyser is insignificant in most of England where the name is based on cross, but given the popularity of the name in Yorkshire ('''York Mayor''' John '''Croser''' 1447) Piety, Fraternity, and Power: Religious Gilds in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1389-1547 David J. F. Crouch Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2000 page 274 with variants in Sweden, it is felt by people of Scandinavian origins migrating to what is now Scotland, likely applied the meaning of hut to Croyser that of hut builder. The Croziers came from Normandy in 1066 with [[William the Conqueror]]. Through the years, some moved northward to the southern areas of Scotland where they became established as a Border Clan. According to Scots Kith and Kin,''Scots Kith & Kin: A Comprehensive A-Z Guide to the Surnames of Scotland, the Clans and Their Tartans'' Collins Celtic, Collins Celtic Staff, Collins UK Collins, 1989 Clan Crozier was in Liddesdale in the 14th Century.http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Heritage/FSCNS/Scots_NS/Clans/Crozier.html Example of Tyndale to Liddesdale-Treviotdale movement; Clemy and John '''Croser''' (Crosier-Crozier), English Tyndale Rebels resettled to Liddesdale-Teviotdale Scotland with Clemy Croser, and Robyn (son of Rob of Redheugh) Elwald, in 1540.Letters and Papers: Foreign and Domestic. Calendar of Henry VIII. Great Britain. Public Record Office, Henry VIII (King of England) Longman, 1896 * [[William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle|'''William le Gros''']] Earl of Yorkshire (Count of Aumale) died 1179 could easily be the influence of the Croyser of today's border region being of Yorkshire. Name similarities exist between, [[Le Cros|Le '''C'''ros]] and Le '''G'''ros and today's '''C'''rozier and '''G'''rozier surnames. William le Gros, owned [[Scarborough Castle]]. Borough means fort and is symbolized on the shield of Scarborough. Scarborough is of Anglo-Saxon origins, and people with the surname Scarborough are known to be from Scarborough. The [[Y-DNA]] of the people named Scarborough was used to locate an entry point into the British Isles, of an Elfwald/Elwald.http://gorrenberry.com/geographic-surname-dna-correlation/ Name version of Crozier with a '''G'''; '''G'''rosar, '''G'''rosars, '''G'''rossars (RB Armstrong), '''G'''ros, and '''G'''rozier, which OCR ([[optical character recognition]]), sometimes read the upper case '''C''' as a '''G''', is questioned if the document is handwritten, that it may have been transcribed in the past with a '''C''' transcribed as a '''G'''. William le Gros, Count of Aumale, was a powerful Anglo-Norman baron and grand-nephew of William the Conqueror. '''Le Cros''' flats (acres) part of Warden manor, about 6 km (4 mi) west of and within the region of Hexam (St Andrew) Priority, Northumberland.The Priory of Hexham, Volume 2 James Raine Society, 1865 pg 26Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society, Volume 4 Bishopsgate Institute, 1922 - London pg 269Publications of the Surtees Society, Volume 48 By Surtees Society pg 26A History of Northumberland, Volume 3, Part 1 By Northumberland County History Committee, Edward Bateson, John Crawford Hodgson, Allen Banks Hinds, Herbert Henry Edmund Craster pg151 In the Norman Barony surname naming procedures, the name is taken from locality, and today there is a '''[[Le Cros]]''', France, which corresponds with surname density, location in Southern France, of '''Le Cros'''. Time of surname adoption, '''Le Cros''' (Le Gros) was likely change to '''Le Croyser''' in what is now England. * '''William le Croyser''' 1264, recorded in ''Eynsham Cartulary'', in the time of King Henry III,and was known The ''Frenchman'', 1216 - 1272.http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Croyser#ixzz3kHkgQRW0 * '''Henry Croiser''' (Croyser) 1266-1272 is detained in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland prison, in killing Agnes of Hertrepol, in self-defence.1266-1272 Great Britain. Public Record Office Kraus Reprint, 1971 This is close to today's Scottish Borders, and likely where the name Croyser/Croiser, migrated into what became Scotland in ca. 1320. * '''Simon le Croyser''' April 1327, is recorded in Calendar of Close Rolls, Peterborough which is a larger community south of [[Crowland]]/[[Crowland Abbey]] as spelled '''Croy'''land.Calendar of the Close Rolls ...: Preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume 24 Great Britain. Public Record Office H. M. Stationery Office, 1896 - Great Britain pg 63-64 * '''William Croyser''' of Bedfordshire and Buckingham County is listed in the Patent Rolls 1348-9.Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office By Great Britain. Public Record Officalendar of Close Rolls, Public Record Office.Edward III, AD 1333-1337. Index; ''....the Elliots, called also Elwods, Elyards, and Elwalds, of the Alfords who came from near Croyland...''The Chronicles of the Armstrong, James L. Armstrong 1903,ed page 31 The Scottish name Croyser originated as a surname in the region of Bedford to Lincoln Counties, in reference to people which built huts. There were also other forms of the name which became Crozier. Example: the name Crosar is quite common in [[Liddesdale]] and Treviotdale. Roughly; from Cros to Crosier with interchanging the "i" with the "s" the name Croiser, evolved to Crosier, then becoming Crozier, which means a Bishop's crozier styled after the cane of a sheep herder tending the flock. Basically the name is of Old French likely the name of a region in southern France of Le Cros with a strong influence of the Norman forename William. Evolved from Cros to Croyser, from meaning [[cross]], to cross/hut builder. Then Croyser to Croiser (cross bearer) to Crosier (bishop's sheppard's cane bearer; crozier) to Crozier meaning [[crozier]]. The name went to Liddesdale, Scotland as Croyser, then after that the changes from Croyser to Crosar (becomes Crosier/Crozier) took place in high Liddedale. ==Name distribution== For the name Crozier a form of Crosier, one finds in Y-DNA studies[https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Crozier/default.aspx?section=ycolorized Family Tree DNA Crozier] Family Tree DNA; Crozier and in the family origins surname distribution maps that the name Crozier concentrates itself along the Scottish Border and Northern Ireland.http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/Default.aspx?region=!WORLD-EUROPE The counties in the British Isles which have the highest frequency of the name Crozier are [[Roxburghshire]], which contains, Liddesdale, in Scotland, and Fermanagh, Ulster, Ireland.[http://forebears.io/surnames/crozier] Crozier, British Isles There is a smaller distribution, in southern England, and this could represent what became Crozier coming from France. It should be noted, of 13 Crozier tested Y-DNA, 11 are M-269, there are two of the unique R-CTS11874 a William Crozier, of Northern, Ireland and a John Crosier of Boston. There were other listed in the Family Tree SNP https://www.familytreedna.com/public/r1b-u152/default.aspx?section=ysnp one of each Kennedy, Loy, and Beckel (Germany). In Public Profiler of World Names http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/ Loy shows Germany-Yorkshire-Scotland-Northern Ireland, Kennedy shows Scotland and Northern Ireland, and Bickel shows Germany. With the locality of the Crozier, as being Border/Ulster Scots, this is indicative of Germanic-Danish Anglo migration. Though the name Crozier of Le Cros in southern France, and the name Eliot of Aliot in southern France, with William Le Gros (Gros like Cros mainly of S Francehttp://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/Default.aspx?region=!WORLD-EUROPE), and William de AliotGenealogy of the Eliot family By William Smith Porter page 2 linked to William the Conqueror, in close proximity, in Liddesdale and Fermanagh, it can be concluded that these families are of basically of similar origins. Though surname acquisition has a French Norman influence, their Scottish, Scandinavian origins is more like their shared ally the Armstrong. === Cros Cross === Surname by; ''World Family Public Profiler'', shows the Surname '''Cros''', is more concentrated around, '''Le Cros''' in southern France, but when an '''"s"''' is added to make '''Cross''' the name distribution is of England, not Scotland. Similar results are found with '''de Aliot''', being of southern France, but when the '''"A"''' is changed to an '''"E"''' then the name becomes '''Eliot''' of England, but not of Scotland.worldnames.publicprofiler.org | '''Cros to Cross, Aliot to Eliot''' '''Cross DNA;''' Family Tree DNA, and World Family results are showing a large proportion, but not being as large as for '''Crozier''' as being [[Haplogroup R1b|R1b-M269]], Y-DNA.https://www.familytreedna.com/public/cross/default.aspx?section=ycolorized | Cross; Family Tree DNA results.http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/cross/results?raw=1 | Cross; World Family results. [[File:R1b-DNA-Distribution.jpg|centre|thumb|250px|Shows R1b DNA distribution which R-M269 is a part of.]] ==Historical distribution== It is found that the American family of Crozier descended from the Croyser Clan, found on the banks of the (upper) Liddel, in the Scottish borderlandsColonial Families of Philadelphia, By John W. Jordan. at '''Riccarton''', and '''Hudshouse'''. In the sixteenth century the Crosars (Crozier) from upper '''[[Liddesdale]]''' to '''Teviotdale''', then onto '''Fermanagh''', Ulster, Ireland. === Riccarton === [[File:RB-Armstrong-Liddesdale-History-Append-1 valley of the Croyser 1376.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Locus Crozier; IDs valley of Liddesdale, by '''locus''' of Crozier.]] In R. B. Armstrong's ''History of Liddesdale'', there is a record of a Locus Croyser, but the word locus means locality, and is listed under Valleys of Liddesdale in 1376, giving the location of a valley of Liddesdale being where the people referred to as Croyser lived. Today this valley is believed to be called Riccarton Burn. The spelling in William Croyser and Simon le Croyser near Croyland, and in "locus Croyser" is consistent in the fourteenth century, which strongly shows that the name which originates in the Valley (locus/locality of a valley in Liddesdale in 1376 by where the Croyser are living) of the Croyser, originated in the Croyland region. This valley now Riccarton Burn is where for Scottish-Irish Croyser (Crozier) surname adoption takes place. It is guarded by the tower of the Croziers, known as Riccarton Tower,[http://canmore.org.uk/site/67993/riccarton-tower] Canmore Riccarton Tower SiteFamily Records By Ashworth Peter Burke pg 195 Crozier [[File:Riccarton Burn - geograph.org.uk - 1253530.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Riccarton Burn, the Valley of the Scottish Croziers.]] Surname seeding is when a surname is brought into a region, and those without a surname adopt it. Among the [[Navajo people|Navajo]] Native Americans a missionary from the mid-west United States brought the Elliott name to the Navajo people. At the time of surname adoption a family of Navajos took on the surname Elliott. Now there is a line of Navajo Elliotts. Surnames, showing popularity in Yorkshire; Croyser and Elwald, though with many deviations which from these standard spellings (norm given the centuries), developed in today's England near the beginning of the twelfth century, and were brought into the north, previous to the [[Declaration of Arbroath]] ca1320, where Croyser evolve into Croiser, Crosier, lastly Crozier, and Elwald evolved into Ellot, Elliot, and some cases Elliott. In the 14th century the name William (like William the Conqueror) Croyser, is found in Bedford, County, in an area not to far from Croyland. In the 13th Century the name Elwald (i.e. Elliot) is found in the region of Rye (Johannes (John) Elwold (Elwald) de (of) Rya (Rye). ca1230Patent Rolls of the Reign of Henry III: 1225-1232 By Great Britain Public Record Office, H.C. Maxwell Lyte (Sir.)), near where the Battle of Hastings took place, and the Kerr which came to the borderland are said to be from Normany. So it is felt a seed carrying the name Croyser, came to the Valley of the Croyser, now Riccarton Burn, in Liddesdale. Riccarton/Riccarton Mill (Rickerton, forms of Richardtown) second home of the Redheugh Ellot (Elliot) is near Larriston/Over&Nether Laristown.History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Instituted ..., Volume 12 By Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland).https://canmore.org.uk/site/67993/riccarton-tower | Riccarton Tower [[File:Berwickshire Naturalist's Club Rakestonleis, Riccarton Tower.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Riccarton, mistakenly Rakestonleis, but is Caddroun Tower.]] [[File:Liddesdale 1590 map.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Helcaldenburne is Caddroun Burn (Tower) where Rakestonleis is of William Crosier in 1590.]] In the 1376 Rent Roll were Ricardtoun superior, and Ricardtoun inferior, and in 1541 rent rolls of Liddesdale were Ricardtoncleuch, Over (superior) Riccarton (higher in elevation), and Richardtoun, Nether (inferior) Riccarton (lower in elevation). [[File:Riccarton Cleuch, Riccarton RB Armstrong of Crosar (Crozier), Elwald (Ellot).jpg|right|thumb|250px|Ricardtoun/R. Cleuch Crosar and Elwald]] In Nether Riccarton Liddesdale 1541 rent rolls, was tenanted by Martin Crosar, Patrick Crosar, Rolland Elwald (i.e. Elliot), and William Elwald, and Over (upper) Riccarton was held by two Crosar farms. In 1576 an Andrew "Dande" Crosar was from Ricardtouncleuch. In 1590 was a Will Croser of Ryckerton (also spelled Rickerton).The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland: 1537-1542 By Scotland. Court of Exchequer, George Powell McNeillRotuli scaccarii regum scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland, Volume 17 By Scotland. Court of Exchequer, George BurnettThe Scotts of Buccleuch, Fraser, William, Sir, 1816-1898. cn, Publisher:Edinburgh : s.n. page 174A Break With The Past, Changed days on two Border sheep farms (Langburnshiels and Riccarton) by Michael J.H. Robson, Ovenshank Newcastleton 1991 pages 41-49 [[File:Crozier and Elliot in Upper Liddesdale Blaeu 1654 map.jpeg|right|thumb|250px|Crozier and Ellot in Upper Liddesdale Blaeu 1654 map]] At time Robert Elwald received land of 1484 a William Gladstanis, are listed with the landholders, and John and '''Quinton''' Crosar, are listed with the witnesses. It is felt that in '''''[[The Death of Parcy Reed]]''''' ''Synopsis; Parcy Reed arrests the reiving outlaw '''Whinton''' Crosierhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch193.htm'', it is felt '''Whinton''' is not a Crosier name, but the name is '''Quinton'''.http://www.classypages.com/FranksGenealogyPage/crosier.htm Robert Elwald (i.e. Elliot) is receiving lands of Redhuegh, Over(superior higher in elevation) and Nether(inferior lower in elevation) on above map where both Larristons O&N, are near Riccarton O&N. [[File:Elliot of Lariston tree.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Lariston tree of Redheugh, including Martin of Prickenhaugh, pre-Stobs fire.]] 1586 Martin Elliot's (intern Ellot clan chief) son Simon had a lease of land from Earl of Bothwell (Liddesdale, Braidlie). 1591 a Crown charter of Phillop in Selkershire and Braidlie (Teviotdale). Martin was called "of" Braidley, indication ownership of land of Braidley, but living on the Braidley Bothwell Liddesdale lease Martin supplied soldiers to the bordering Hermitage Castle. Simon and Martin of Redheugh, built a tower of Prickenhaugh in the region of Robert of Redheugh, now living in Lariston N&O, and the Riccarton N&O Crozier.Scottish arms a collection of armorial bearings,A.D. 1370-1678 by R.R. Stodart Published 1881 by W. Paterson in Edinburgh. It should be noted that a John Elwald who witness the sasine (deed) of Robert Elwald of Redheugh, likely was John Elwald of Thorlieshill, near Hudhouse of the Crosar (Crozier), witness a Scott deed in 1488.The Scotts of Buccleuch (1878) pg 92, by Sir William Fraser Other words the Crosar/Croyser (Crozier) and the Elwald (Ellot) were close. Thorsliehope was land of the Elwald like Gorrenberry (next to Braidley) previous to Robert Elwald receiving lands of Redheugh, Larriston, Hartsgarth and other. '''''Jamie Telfer in The Fair Dodhead Telfer''''' is sent to meet Martin Elliot, of Prickinhaugh, as shown on the Blaeu map as being near N&O Ricarrton, and N&O Lariston. The Pedigree According to the Genealogy of 1704-7 (previous to Stobs Castle fire of 1712) ELLIOTS OF LARISTON ; Robert Elliot of Lariston, the '''15'''th, had a feud with the Armstrongs. Married a daughter of Buccleuch. His next brother was Martin Elliot, of Prickinhaugh. The Crozier Hudshouse is in the vicinity of Slaughtree, home of a Margaret (Meg, Megg, Maggie) Kidd mistress to Redheugh (Robert 15) now of Larriston, which he builds a tower for her at Hartsgarth. Second son living in Larriston with his father Robert chief 15, is William then of Hartsgrath with his mother (rf sansine/deed). Next son Gilbert "Gib-bie of Golden Garters" is said to be born of a father of Larriston, and a mother of Buccluech (Kidd's curse, Kidd's wall). Though a Hob Elwode (i.e. Robert Elliott), lived and was taken in by his uncle Clemyt Crossier (i.e. Clement Crozier) of Stobbes (Stobs) became Clementis Hobs, Gavan Ellot was first Ellot owner of Stobs, second husband to Gilbert's mother, purchases Stobs for his grandson (first son of Gilbert) William. Gilbert marrying Mary "Fendy" first cousin to Buccleuch gave William the blood of a Buccleuch. This William (has first son Sir Gilbert) changed his support to Buccleuch (King Charles II), then hung himself so the Cromwellian Parliamentarians, would not take his estate.The Border Elliots and the Family of Minto By George Francis Scott Elliot; Kidd, Margaret, or Meg, 248. ' Kidd's curse,' 249 n. ' Kidd's walls,' From this William, to indicate loyalty to the Royalist, and to differentiate the name from the Parliamentarian, Sir John Elliot which died in the tower of London, the family of the Clan Elliot chief of Stobs/Redheugh spells their name '''''Eliott'''''. [[File:Sasine deed 1484 for Robert Elwald (Elliot), Redheugh, Larriston, Hartsgarth.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Redheugh Elwald sasine (deed); Crosars witnesses.The Annals of a Border Club (the Jedforest): And Biographical Notices of the Families Connected Therewith George Tancred T. S. Smail, 1899 - History of Scotland]] In Ulster, Ireland the name Crozier (1659, Croser 1630) was introduced by settlers who arrived from England and Scotland, especially during the seventeenth century with strong associations with Counties Fermanagh and Armagh.[http://www.irishsurnames.com/cgi-bin/gallery.pl?name=crozier&capname=Crozier&letter=c Irish surnames]; Crozier [[File:WESTMORLANDIAE et Cumberlandiae Comitatum towers along Liddel.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Lower Liddesdale, not showing Croziers.]] The Scottish, and other border people followed a similar path migration from The Liddel Water which is a Scottish-English border except in the Debatable Lands and past Kirhopefoot, where Mangerton is. Migration followed up into Northern Liddesdale. In Scotland, the names Armstrong, Elwald (Ellot), and Nixon, may have had there Scottish birth in the Debatable lands; the Croyser it is felt took more of a direct route northward bypassing the Debatable Lands. Along with the Crosar/Crozier, listed as witnesses are Grame/Grahams, and Forstar/Foster/Forester. Though Elwald-Ellot (Elliot) of Redhuegh and Gorrenberry are listed, along with the son of Buccleuch, Cessford (Roxburghe), and his brother, and other Kerr, a Wm Gledstanis, and a number of Elwald as witnesses. There are no Armstrongs, though Grahams, Foresters, and Armstrongs had towers along the Liddel. The Armstrong, and their allies, believe like indigenous Americans, that land is of the common. Previous to the Redheugh sasine, the Armstrong Mangerton lands were re-granted by Arhibald "Bell the Cat" Douglas V Earl of Angus to Scot of Buccleuch. That is why the Armstrong are not on sasine.https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor/article/download/14397/20215/ Top historian of Scottish history. Nicked by Redheugh, and Gorrenberry is bleeding. === Hudshouse === Near burn of same name, tower remains verily exist, and a peel house at Hudshouse poscessed by this clan. Scotts of Buccleuch, Vol II page 174.The History of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Wauchopedale and ..Vol1, By Robert Bruce Armstrong. Hudhouse was a two story house http://canmore.org.uk/event/734250 with dual doors, making it a strongly built huddle house. What one would call a "Hudshouse". Hudshouse had recent farming up to about 1890, but in ruins with slight remains of an ancient tower of the Croziers.History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Volume 12 Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1890 Philippo Crosar was recorded on the Rental Rolls of Liddesdale, being a tenant at Hudshouse in 1541.A Hawick Word Book by Douglas Scott DRAFT-vers 2, Aug 2015 '''Hudshouse''' is below foot of Helcaldenburne (Caddroun Burn), on Liddel (refer to; Blaeu map of 1654).https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blaeu_-_Atlas_of_Scotland_1654_-_LIDALIA_-_Liddesdale.jpg | Blaeu 1654-Hudshouse foot of Helcaldenburne '''Rakestonleis''' is of Caddroun Burn Tower (Helcaldenburne 1590) of Martin Crozier.https://canmore.org.uk/site/67961/caddroun-burn-tower | Caddroun Burn TowerColonial Families of Philadelphia, Volume 2 By John Woolf Jordan pg1387. === Treviotdale === The family becomes Treviodale Crosiers of Alderstonshields, with nearby Clement Crosier in StobsThe Hamilton Papers: A.D 1543-1590, By Great Britain. General Register Office (Scotland). migrating north Clement Crosier on Gledstanis estate land to Hummelknows just south of [[Hawick]].1569-1578 By Scotland Privy Council ''The head of the Croziers was Clame (Clement) in Hummilknowes'' (1569).History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Volume 13 By Berwickshire Naturalists' Club Report of Meetings for 1890. By Dr J. Hardy. 63 [[File:Crosyer, Crosier, Crosser of Agerstoneshields-Alderston Shields and Stobs.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Crosyer, Crosier, Crosser of Agerstoneshields-Alderstonshields and Stobs.]] Crosyer, Crosier, Crosser of Agerstoneshields-Alderstonshields and Stobs, on Gladstanis estate in Treviotdale, 1544The Hamilton Papers: A.D. 1543-1590 General Register House, 1892 - Great Britain [[File:Surities of Clem Crosar Hummelknows.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Hummelknows, Crosar which are surities (in bond) by Clem Crosar]] Sureties/bonding of Crosars by Clement Crosar of Hammelknows;The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, Volume 1,Scotland. Privy Council, John Hill Burton, David Masson, Peter Hume Brown, Henry Paton, Robert Kerr Hannay, H.M. General Register House, 1877 - Archives Gladstanis land in Treviotdale of Hammelknows, Alderstonshields and Stobs, which Crozier (Crosar) were tenants; [[File:Gladstanis Treviotdale land with Crosar Crozier tenants map.jpg|centre|thumb|250px|Gledstanis land which Crosar are tenants.]] === Fermanagh === The relation between the Crosare (Crozier), Elwald (Ellot), Home (Hume), in the Minto (Wolflee/Wolfhopelee) regions is shown in a Declaration of Sasine to David of Home 1436, when a Johannis Elwald, and a Jacobi Crosare witness the deed of David Hume receiving land from of Wolflee and Wolfhopelee from William Douglas.Report on the Manuscripts of Colonel David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle, Issue 2 Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts H. M. Stationery Office, 1902 - Home family John Croser sword only is listed in the ca1630 munster rolls of [[Tully Castle]] (1630 Tully, Monea, and [[Tullykelter Castle]]s exist, but Castle Hume was built laterA Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke J. R. Smith, 1844 page 608) the Barony de Magherboy, Fermanangh, Ulster. Croser, Ellot and Hume in this same region as found two centuries earlier, in southern Treviotdale with Sasine of David Hume.The history of Enniskillen with reference to some manors in co. Fermanagh, and other local subjects by Trimble, William Copeland, 1851-1941 Published 1919 [[File:Tully, Hume, Monea, Castle region in 1790 map.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Maghereboy, Fermanagh, Ulster, Hume, Hamilton and Somerville lands of [[Tully Castle|Tully]], [[Monea Castle|Monea]], and [[Tullykelter Castle]] lands.]] In 1659, Crozier were listed in the Census of Fermanagh/Armagh, Ulster.Special Report On: Ireland, the 1659 Census, edited by Irish Genealogical Foundation, M. Laughlin 1528 IN DEBATABLE LANDS; Of the Armstrong, Ellot, Nixon and Crosar; the most numerous in 1528 are the Armstong then Elwands, Ellwoods, or Elliots who extended into Teviotdale, Nixons which are more numerous in Cumberland than Scotland and the Crosars in Upper Liddesdale with their chief stronghold at Riccarton.[30] A CENTURY LATER IN ULSTER; Across the water to Ulster into the counties of Fermanagh which now borders Ireland, and Armagh. Given numbers for the Armstrong, Elliot (Ellot), Nixon, and Crozier (Crosar) of Fermanagh and Armagh,The book of Ulster Surnames, Robert Bell, 1988 shows these two counties were stepping stones, into the English Plantations and around the world. ==The Plantations== === Australia and New Zealand === (space for future information) === Canada and United States === Early Crosier into '''Boston, Massachusetts'''; CROSIER TIME LINE by Charles Crosier.http://www.classypages.com/FranksGenealogyPage/timeline.htm | CROSIER TIME LINE by Charles Crosier '''''1735''' December 29 - An intent to marry is recorded in Kings Chapel for John Crosier and Martha Lindsey.'' note; John Croser b. ca1714 Ireland?, father William Samuel Crossett and mother; Martha Hamilton, married; Martha Lindsay 1735 in '''Boston, Massachusetts'''.The Crosiers of Halifax, Vermont: Some Descendants of John Croser C. 1714 - C. 1755 Iris Wilcox Baird, 1996 - 322 page '''''1735/36''' January 13 - John Crosier marries Martha Lindsey at Kings Chapel (Episcopalian).'' Were like many Crosier/Crozier of Ulster (Scot-Irish) would have been Episcopalian.http://www.historyireland.com/early-modern-history-1500-1700/sheep-stealers-from-the-north-of-england-the-riding-clans-in-ulster-by-robert-bell//| who wrote '''The book of Ulster Surnames''', Robert Bell, 1988 Traditionally the '''Philadelphia, Pennsylvania''' Crozer (Crozier) family was founded by five brothers, Andrew, John, James, Robert and Samuel of Northern Ireland (Ulster), arrived in Philadelphia about '''1723''', unrecorded parents were likely with them.Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Volume 2 By John Woolf Jordan '''Norwalk, Conneticutt''', Richard Cozier (Crozier), wife Abigail Brown listed in deeds of '''1709''' Book B, pg. 66, Norwalk Deeds, Nov. 18, 1709. deceased '''1724'''.Norwalk,Conneticutt Wills; Mch. 4, 1728/9, page 214. ==Crozier Coat of Arms== Traditional design features, are the ''fleur de lis'' of France used in EnglandThe British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 1 Thomas Robson (engraver.) 1830 - Great Britain and America ('''Crozier's''' General Armory:...... ed '''William Armstrong Crozier'''),Crozier's General Armory: A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor edited by William Armstrong Crozier with French being the basis to the name Crozier. Azure or lapis blue being a tradition colour of the Crozier Clan arms. [[File:Clan_Crozier_coat_of_arms.svg|left|thumb|300px|Coat of Arms for armigerous Clan Crozier to share.]]The cross is the Christian (St George's Cross), colour scheme in that of the arms of the Armstrong and the Scottish flag. Though the white could be turn to gold if the Irish want their coat of arms different. The Irish of mainly Fermanagh/Armagh, have Liddesdale/Teviotdale Scottish origins. The stag head is found normally on top in the caboose is on the white cross, and is a symbol used by the King/St Elwald ([[Ælfwald I of Northumbria]]), and the Cumbria Ellwood,Bolton's American Armory By Jina Bolton, Charles Knowles BoltonEncyclopædia of Heraldry, Or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland: Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms John Burke, Sir John Bernard Burke H. G. Bohn, 1844 along with the HorsliehillThe History of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale and the Debatable Land: By Robert Bruce Armstrong, Volume 1Robert Bruce Armstrong D. Douglas, 1883 page 178The Border Elliots and the Family of Minto By George Francis Scott Elliot page 252 (William) Ellot. Stag head is in the centre, which makes the arms unique and compacts the design to a shield. For artistry the stag head is not symmetric, and is vertically compact to fit on the vertical member of the cross.[[File:Crozier_Arms_yellow.svg|right|thumb|210px|Coat of Arms for armigerous Clan Crozier to share; yellow option.]] Stag looks towards the left, for people of a society which reads from left to right, the stag seems to as being addressed from the left looking at the reader. Two colour scheme of white (gold maybe substituted) and blue is utilized, in svg (scalable vector graphics). Public domain to be shared by Clan Crozier. Clan Crozier an [[armigerous clan]], does not have an arms registered by [[Lord Lyon]][[File:Notes and Queries Oxford University Press, 1876 - Questions and answers page 174, 5th S. VI. Aug. 26, 1876.jpg|left|thumb|250px|W.E.; (most likely William Elliot)]] the heraldic authority for Scotland. The given are an example based on Crozier traditional arms, which can be shared by all Crozier, Crosier, Grozier, Gros, Crosser, Cross, Cros, Crozat, Crozet and other variant names. Surnames (Family Tree DNA Crozier site) Crazier, Crizer, Crosair, Crosare, Croser, Crosier, Crosir, Crosnier, Crossar, Crosser, Croysar, Croyser, Crozer, Crozierhttp://www.familytreedna.com/public/Crozier ''I have not seen the arms-of Croser; but they and the Nixons were small broken clans, dependent on the Elliots of Lariston, also broken clan and followers of Buccleugh, it is probable they would carry similar arms.'' Notes and Queries; Oxford University Press, August 1876 page 173https://books.google.com/books?id=dfzfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA174&dq=%22ELLIOTS+OF+LARISTON%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMIy8fLy7P8yAIVFNhjCh0dhgBE#v=onepage&q=croser&f=false note; Clan Armstrong does not have a chief, but Clan Elliot does. ==Crozier Tartan== The [[Scottish Register of Tartans]] for "Crozier/Crosser" 01/01/1983 [[National Records of Scotland]], H.M. General Register House, [[Scottish Tartans Authority]] STA ref:1779 [[File:Clan Crozier Crosser Tartan Details UK government registry standards jpg.jpg|centre|thumb|600px|Clan Crozier, Scottish Registered Tartan.]] ==Crozier Motto== '''Crux coelorum, crux mihi clavis erit.''' Translation; 1.(Cross of heaven, for me; the keys of heaven.) 2.(Heavens above, the cross will be the key for me.) [[File:Crozier Motto.jpg|centre|thumb|290px|1.(Cross of heaven, for me; the keys of heaven.) 2.(Heavens above, the cross will be the key for me.)]] '''Crozier's General Armory:''' A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor '''William Armstrong Crozier''' Genealogical association, 1904 page 45.https://books.google.com/books?id=TqorAAAAIAAJ [[File:Blason Famille Crozat.svg|right|thumb|50px|Crozat Arms of France with cross.]] Bulletin d'archéologie et de statistique de la Drôme, Volumes 23-24 1889 - Dauphiné (France) Dictionnaire Des Devises Dauphiné page 505 122.--'''Crux coelorum, crux mihi clavis erit''' (Croix des cieux, pour moi clefs du ciel) '''De Crozat'''.https://books.google.com/books?id=crNIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA505&lpg=PA505&dq=%22Crux+coelorum,+crux+mihi+clavis+erit%22&source=bl&ots=Il72b1Gp-I&sig=r5kf1agsD-UhojBLelXn4dnUbfg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBGoVChMIjOujtKiLyQIVSFOICh1OWwgE#v=onepage&q=%22Crux%20coelorum%2C%20crux%20mihi%20clavis%20erit%22&f=false Anthony du '''Crozat (Crosset)''', a French Huguenot is a refugee to Ireland 1591.Anthony du Crozat (Crosset), a French Huguenot is a refugee to Ireland 1591 | '''The Crossett Name''' ==Visiting [[Newcastleton]]-Copshaw Holm== David (Crozier) on a visit to [[Liddesdale]], Newcastleton noted on a sign in the domain of the public Kelly's Journey: July 2015 http://www.livelovetravelx.co.uk read;".....the famous families of Elliot, Armstrong, Nixon and Crozier.....Welcome to Copshaw Holm." Another sign of the region reads. "Nixons, and Crosiers rode with Elliots and the Armstrongs. ..nicknames like..Nebless Clem." The Steel Bonnets; Book by George MacDonald Fraser, Nebles Clem is a Crosar, and one would find when the name Clem is used during this era it is almost always a Crosier/Crozier. Also G. Fraser, is another individual which establishes Riccarton, as the place for the Crozier.The Steel Bonnets; Book by George MacDonald Fraser, ==[[County Fermanagh|Fermanagh]]/[[County Armagh|Armagh]]== From one border to another; Fermangh/Armagh are border counties of Ulster. Maps are of 1583 and 1613. Ulster 1584.png|Ulster 1583 Ulster 1613.png|Ulster 1613 Counties of Fermangh and Armagh shown to stay the same during the early part of the Ulster Plantation. Londonderry an "English" County of the newly developed Ulster Plantation was made from Coleraine and the northeast tip of Tyrone. '''As the Armstrong; may Clan Crozier now, go UNVANQUISHED.''' ==Elwald== '''(please make this temporary and take the code)''' Trying to make Elwald Unvanquished; note; '''Clan Crozier''' has been deleted as and allied clan from Wikipedia Clan Eliott (Elliot) site. '''For the father's father of the Eliott, Elliot, Elliott and Eliot''' The origins of the border names '''Eliott/Elliot''', have been highly documented by the following research genealogists, and historians, most of the name '''Eliott/Ellio'''t to be of '''Elwald/Elwalde/Elwold origins;''' Eliott;'''11th Baronet of Stobs, Arthur Eliott'''.The Elliots; The Storey of a Border Clan A Genealogical History by Lady Eliott of Stobs, Sir Arthur Eliott, 11th Baronet of Stobs. '''George Tancred''' in his Annauls of a Border Club.https://archive.org/stream/annalsabordercl00tancgoog#pa\/n180/mode/2up | The Annals of a Border Club (the Jedforest): And Biographical Notices of the Families Connected Therewith George Tancred T. S. Smail, 1899 page 148'''George Francis Scott Elliot''' in his The Border Elliots.The Border Elliots and the Family of Minto By George Francis Scott Elliot, page 468 appendix no. 1. '''Walter Elliot''' in his article The Elliot who took on Bothwell.http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/local-headlines/the-elliot-who-took-on-bothwell-1-107850 | The Elliot who took on Bothwell Published Date: 13:13 Monday 06 July 2009 The Southern Reporter By Walter Elliot Reference to the name (Elwald, Elwalde, and or Elwold) being associated to Northumbland is also contained in the research of these renowned genealogical historians. '''For the father's father of the Elliott, Elliot, Eliott, Eliot;'''The Dowager Lady '''Eliott''' of Stobs, Sir Arthur '''Eliott''', 11th Baronet of Stobs, have like the old Eliot-Elliot-Eliott-Elliott name poem spell their name with a single '''l''', and a double '''t''' and they are from Stobs. George Franscis Scott '''Elliot''', and Walter '''Elliot''' Are the Elliot from Scotland; Minto and Wolflee, Noted;The relation between the Crosare (Crozier), Elwald (Ellot), Home (Hume), in the '''Minto''' (Wolflee/Wolfhopelee) regions is shown in a Declaration of Sasine to David of Home 1436, when a Johannis Elwald, and a Jacobi Crosare witness the deed of David Hume receiving land from of Wolflee and Wolfhopelee from William Douglas.Report on the Manuscripts of Colonel David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle, Issue 2 Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts H. M. Stationery Office, 1902 - Home family they have a double '''l''' and a single '''t'''. As '''The Dowager Lady Eliott of Stobs, Sir Arthur Eliott, 11th Baronet of Stobs'''.The Elliots; The Storey of a Border Clan A Genealogical History by Lady Eliott of Stobs, Sir Arthur Eliott, 11th Baronet of Stobs. has shown there are basically two origins of the name Eliot-Elliot-Eliott The English Eliot given census surname distribution of 1881, show them being of the [[St Germans, Cornwall]] near Port Eliot southwest coast of England.http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Map.aspx name=ELIOT&year=1881&altyear=1998&country=GB&type=name For the '''Elliot, Eliott, Eliot, and Elliot''' the old verse holds true; ''Double '''L''' and single '''T''''' ''The Elliots of Minto and Wolfelee;'' ''Double '''T''' and single '''L''''' ''The Eliotts of Stobs do dwell;'' ''Single '''L''' and single '''T''''' ''The Eliots of St. Germains be;'' ''But double '''L''' and double '''T''''' ''The de'il may ken wha' they may be.''' [[File:Eliot Family of William De Aliot genealogy.jpg|centre|thumb|250px|Aliot a town in Southern France became Eliot Northern France (Breton), and southern England (St. Germain).]] [[File:Elwald people of the forested groves 1376.jpg|left|thumb|300px| The forested groves where Elwald are recorded living in 1540]] [[File:Elwald people of the forested groves ca 1540.jpg|right|thumb|300px| The forested groves of 1376 where Elwald living in 1540]] '''Gorrenberry, Braidlie, Hermitage, and Sundhope''' are names still in use today in Planning the proposed '''Windy Edge (Hermitage Castle) wind farm'''.http://scottishborders.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s2992/Item%20No.%206a%20-%20Windy %20Edge%2013-00789-FUL%20June%2015.pdf| Windy Edge Wind Farm proposal. ===13th century=== '''Alanus Elfwold''' recorded in Bec; '''[[Beck Hall]]''', Norfolk '''''1248'''''.Skrifter utgivna av Humanistiska vetens-kapssamfundet; Lund, Volumes 72-74 C.W.K. Gleerup.The Anglo-saxon Heritage in Middle English Personal Names: East Anglia 1100-1399, Volume 2 CWK Gleerup, 1979 - English language '''Alan'''us '''Elfwold''' where '''Elwold''', and '''Elwald''' are used in conjunction with each other, and are early forms of '''Ellot/Elliot'''. '''Elfwold''' is and Anglo-Danish name where the Danish elk ('''elg'''; US moose) , and the Danish wolf ('''ulf'''), where previous to surnames '''Elg''', and '''Ulf''' were Danish personal names, and it is felt since the elk (moose) and wolf where extinct or near extinction for the wolf, that the name from '''Elf''' (from elf) was use for Anglo-Danish of the name '''Elgwald''' (Denmark) or '''Elchwald''' (Germany). The surname '''Elfwold''' became '''Elwald''' for a line of '''Elliot''' chiefs with the name '''Robert Elwald'''. By or beginning the next century '''Robert Elwald''' son of '''Alan''' moved on to '''[[Rimington]]'''. '''Robert Elwald''' of the Redheugh Cheif" (sasine/deed) in '''''1476''''', according to a predigree ca.1704 (previos to Stobs fire), this Chief '''Robert Elwald''' is felt to be the '''''10th''''' of the name.ROBERT THE 10TH The Elliots; The Story of the Border Clan page 12, Sir Arthur Eliott 1986 In the Lariston Tree below '''Robert''' Elliot of Lariston, the '''''15th''''', is brother to Martin Elliot of nearby Prickinghaugh. '''Robert Elwald 10th''' recieved a grant of land know as '''Redheugh''', Lariston and other; [[File:Sasine deed 1484 for Robert Elwald (Elliot), Redheugh, Larriston, Hartsgarth.jpg|centre|thumb|250px|Aliot Grant of land which Robert Elwald the 10th of the name received to become Robert of Redheugh]] In the Lariston Tree below '''Robert''' Elliot of Lariston, the '''''15th''''', is brother to Martin Elliot of nearby Prickinghaugh. '''(1476 of Redheugh-1248 of Northfolk)/10th = 22.8 years per generation.''' ==References== {{reflist|30em}} ==External links== *http://www.clanarmstrongtrust.org.uk/ Clan Armstrong Trust *http://www.historyireland.com/early-modern-history-1500-1700/sheep-stealers-from-the-north-of-england-the-riding-clans-in-ulster-by-robert-bell// ‘Sheep stealers from the north of England’: the Riding Clans in Ulster by Robert Bell *http://www.eparrs.com/ProudParr/pdfs/HISTORY_IRELAND_Winter1994_pgs.25-29.pdf| '''PDF''' ‘Sheep stealers from the north of England’: the Riding Clans in Ulster by Robert Bell {{DEFAULTSORT:Crozier}} [[Category:Armigerous clans]] [[Category:Scottish clans]]