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Shand Family History

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The ancient chronicles of Scotland reveal the early records of the name Shand as a Norman surname which ranks as one of the oldest. The history of the name is finely interwoven within the tapestry of Scottish tartans dominating the panorama of the history of Scotland.

Skilled historical analysts have researched ancient manuscripts such as the Domesday Book (compiled in 1086 by William the Conqueror), the Ragman Rolls, the Wace poem, the Honour Roll of the Battel Abbey, The Curia Regis, Pipe Rolls, the Falaise Roll, tax records, baptismals, family genealogies, the local parish and church records. This research has shown the first record of the name Shand was found in Aberdeenshire where they were seated from ancient times, some say as early as the 12th century. In this county the name has been found in the parishes of Fyvie, Drumblade, Auchterless, Culsalmond, Forgue, Turriff, Gamrie and King Edward. The family is said, by C.F. Shand, the family historian, to be descended from Philibert de Shaunde, Earl of Bath in 1485, who in turn, was descended from a noble house in Normandy. The Earl of Bath, Philibert Shaunde, was created by King Henry II of England and Normandy. Philibert was styled by the King as "Consanguineus noster".

Many Scottish Clans and family trace their origins to Normandy. Your name, Shand, occurred in many references, from time to time, including Shand, Chand, Schand, Chandai, Shandscross, Shawnd, Shaunde, and these changes in spelling occurred, even between father and son. Scribes recorded and spelled the name as it sounded, phonetically. It was not unlikely that a person would be born with on spelling, married with another, and buried with another. All three spellings related to the same person. Sometimes preferences for different spelling variations either came from a division of the family, or, for religious reasons, or sometimes nationalistic reasons.

Believed to be descended from the Norman race, the Normans were frequently but mistakenly assumed to be of French origin. They were more accurately of Viking origin. The Vikings landed in the Rokneys and Northern Scotland about the year 870 A.D., under their King, Stirgud the Stout. Thorfinn Roll, his descendant, landed in northern France about the year 911 A.D. The French King, Charles the Simple, after Rollo laid siege to Paris, finally conceded defeat and granted northern France to Rollo. Rollo became the first Duke of Normandy, the territory of the north men. Rollo married Charles' daughter and became a convert to Christianity. Duke William who invaded and defeated England in 1066, was descended from the first Duke Rollo of Normandy.

By 1070, the Norman nobles in the north of England were in rebellion. Duke William took an army north and laid waste most of the northern counties. King Malcolm Canmore of Scotland invited many of teh displaced nobles to his court and gave them grants of land. About 1130, the Earl of Huntingdon, heir to the Scottish throne, later to become King David of Scottand also offered land to his Norman friends in England, particularly in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and the lower midlands.

The surname Shand emerged as a notable Scottish family name in the county of Aberdeen where in ancient times there was a relationship to the Dalgaty clan, perhaps maternally. Robert Schawnd was provost of Arnoldston in 1522. They acquired estates in Arnhall in Kincardineshire and Templelands in Aberdeen. In more recent years they intermarried with the Smiths (Smith-Shand) and with the Chalmers. Prominent amount the family at this time was Philibert de Shaunde, Earl of Bath.

The bearers of the Shand name contributed much to the affairs of England and Scotland. Later, in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries Scotland was ravaged by religious and political conflict. The Monarchy, the Church and Parliament, fought for supremacy. During these times of tyranny the exodus began. Highlanders joined the Highland Regiments. Lowlanders were shipped to Ireland. Families sought favorable alliances, with powerful clans, either by marriage or contract. Choosing the wrong loyalty could be disastrous to a family name, and their viable future. As a succession of monarchs attempted to subdue Ireland it became very fashionable to be loyal to that cause.

The settlers in Ireland became known as the "Adventurers for land in Ireland". They "undertook" to keep the Protestant faith, both within their family and among their workers. The name Shand may well have arrived in Ireland early in the 17th century during the reign of James I of Britain, when six counties in Ulster were confiscated and settled by the Protestant "Planters" or "Undertakers", as these settlers were known.

The democratic freedom of the New World attracted many. They sailed aboard the fleet of sailing ships known as the "White Sails". The storm Atlantic, small pox, dysentery, cholera and typhoid took its toll on the settlers and many of the overcrowded ships arrived with only 60 or 70% of their passenger list.

In North America, migrants who could be considered kinsmen of the family name Shand, or viable spellings of that same family name included: A. Shand who arrived in San Francisco, California, in 1852. Settlers joined the wagon trains westward. During the War of Independence some declared their loyalty to the Crown and moved northward into Canada and became known as the United Empire Loyalists. Contemporary notables bearing this surname include: Mayor Bruce Shand, Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex, Chairman of Wine House' Right reverend David Shand, Bishop of St. Arnaud.

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History of the Surname Shand

As in the case with most other ancient proper names, the surname Shand has been spelt differently, at different times. (In the Fasti Abredonenses another old name of the district, Strachan, is spelt in no less than twenty-two different ways) In the older writings it appears under the form of Schawand, Schaand, Schande, Schand and Shan. The Latin form was, latterly, at least Schandeus (Fasti Abredonenses); but, as we shall see by and by, it has been maintained, though probably on insufficient evidence, that De Campo was the Latin equivalent in earlier times. Originally it would appear that the surname was entirely confined to the northeastern counties of Scotland, particularly Aberdeenshire, and it is believed that, widely spread as it now is throughout the different parts of the Empire, although the name has never been particularly numerous, there is not a family of Shands which cannot easily connect itself directly with the part of Scotland to which we have just referred.

There can, therefore, we apprehend, be little doubt that all the families of this name are derived from one commonstock, and judging from the frequency of the name, and the earliest authentic notices in older times, its original habitat seems to have been in the district comprising the parishes of Turriff, Forgue, Drumblade, Auchterless, Culsamond, Fyvie, King Edward (Kinedart), Gamery and adjacent localities.

In the year 1539, Robert Schand was the co-owner if the lands of Udoch, (now Idoch) in the said parish of Turriff, along with Forbes of Brux and Con of Auchry. In the same parish the lands of Shand’s Cross are situated, but so far as we are aware the precise origin of this name has not been preserved. In the middle ages, as it is well known, crosses were set up to mark the limits and boundaries of girths, jurisdictions, and franchises; the marches of the lands, and the spots where any incident had happened, such as seemed worthy of commemoration or remembrance, in the more simple and credulous manners of the day.

On the 16th January 1460, the Bishop of Aberdeen, Thomas Spens, granted a precept for the institution of Mr. Gilbert Hay as Predendary of Turriff in the Cathedral, an office then vacant by the death of Master John de Campo, the last incumbent. It has been suggested that the name of Shand’s Cross may be connected with this ecclesiastic, in whose name of De Campo or De Campis some antiquarians have recognised the older form of Shand, passing through the changes of Deschamps, Dechamp and Champ pronounced Shan, which has always been the local pronunciation of the name, all these names being met with in the older records of that part of Scotland. This origin of the surname has been advocated with considerable plausibility by contributors to Notes and Queries, and the local sound of the name which, as we have seen, rejects the final d, may be thought to support the theory. But, till further evidence is produced, we think the verdict ought, in the language of the country itself, to be "Not Proven". We are the more inclined to arrive at this conclusion from the fact that word "Schand" is given by Dr Jamieson in his Dictionary of the Scottish Language as the form of an adjective of Teutonic origin, signifying elegant, bright" etc. It is well known to every archaeologist, that very many surnames have had their sources in the personal traits and characteristics of individuals, and we confess that it appears to us that we have here a very natural and probably origin of the name. There seems little doubt that this attributive still lingers in our ordinary language in such words as Shandwick, beautiful bay, and a few others. (It has been stated that "Shan" or "Shand" is the cant or slang word for bad money. This is a mistake. The word is "Sheen". See Slang Dictionary 1874. There is a Shanville in the parish of Crathie, a Shandstone in the parish of Beharm, and a Shandbothy in Lanarkshire.)

In the Poll Book of Aberdeenshire of the year 1696, we find the name well represented in the same part of the country, and this has ever since continued down to our own time.

As might naturally be looked for, the attractions of commerce and town life caused persons of this name, like other individuals, to gravitate towards the towns on the coast. Accordingly, in the records of the city of Aberdeen, and the towns of Banff, Fraserburgh, Peterhead, and others similarly situated, we find many persons of the surname engaged in commerce, and filling municipal and public offices of every description, for centuries past. Notices of many of these Worthies will be given in the sequel.

It is believed that the well-known and eminent Antiquary, the late George Chalmers of London, had prepared a pedigree of the Shands, but the result of his inquiry cannot now be found, although diligent search has been made for it, both at home and in India, where it is understood some of the Shands, with whom he was connected by blood, have been for some time resident. This is much to be regretted, for there are very few persons so well qualified as the author of "Caledonia" to collect and put together the archaeological notices of a Scottish family. The late Mr. John Shand and Mr. William Shand, the owners of the beautiful estates of The Burn and Arnhall in the county of Kincardine, were, we believe, nearly connected, by the mother’s side, with George Chalmers, and from this circumstance it is probable that his interest in the name of Shand took its origin. We are, not without hope, that his Account of the surname may yet be discovered.

(From the Appendix - "De Campo" with reference to the theory that this was an early Latin forrn of the name;, it may be noted that the ancient Border Family of Schaw were in Latin De Chatto or Shatto)

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Origins of the Name Shand

SHAND, A rare but old surname in Scotland. "The surname of Shand seems originally to have been confined to the north-eastern counties, paricularly Aberdeenshire, and in that county more especially to the districts comprising the parishes of Turriff, Furgue, Drumblade, Auchterless, Culsalmond, Fyvie, King-Edward, and Gamrie. In old times it was variously spelled Schawand, Schaand (1694), Schande, Schand (1528) and Shand... We have also Shandscross given to certain lands on the estate of Delgaty."

1. Magister Robert Schawnd was prebendary of Arnaldston, 1522. ¹

2. Probably French. ²

   • - Black, George F., PH.D, The Surnames of Scotland, p. 719

Shand (Aberdeen, 1672). Az. a boar's head couped ar. on a chief of the last three mullets gu. Crest - A dove volant above the waters, holding in the beak a branch of olive ppr. Motto - Virtute duce, comite fortuna.

• - Burke, Sir Bernard, C.B., LL.D, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, p. 916

The motto translated reads: "If virtue is your leader, good fortune will be your companion." ³

There are two possible origins for the name Shand. 1. According to my second cousin, Ian Shand, who lived north of London, Shand is purportedly derived from "Schaund", the name of immigrants in remote times, perhaps from Holland or Friesland. 2. The name Shand can also be traced to the district of Orne, in Normandy, France. At the end of the 11th Century, Orne was on the southern frontier of Norman control. The loss of Normandy to France in 1453 helped provoke the Wars of the Roses in England. A major participant in the war who was instrumental in restoring the Tudor monarchy to the throne of England was a Shand.

"Philibert de Shaunde was created earl of Bath in 1485; but nothing is known of him except that he was a native of Brittany."3 Baring-Gould says from Chandai in Orne.4

• - Black, George F., PH.D, The Surnames of Scotland, p. 719

Chandai is a village 8.5 km SE of the small town of l'Aigle on N 26. According to the Guide Michelin p.87, Chandai boasts a pleasant restaurant called "Le trou Normand". Philibert was said to have been "of Savoy" and the coat of arms for Chandai or Chandee is from the region of Savoy in SE France.

Chandee - Bresse, Bugey. D'azur a la bande d'or acc. de six bes. d'arg., ranges en orie. D.: LA NE FERA CHANDEE

• - Reitstap, J.B., Armorial General, p. 401

The armorial is a band of gold on a blue field between six red roundels ordered in ranks.

The Bresse and Bugey rivers are located in Ain, France, a district between Lyon and Lake Geneva, Switzerland. In the tenth century, Hubert Whitehands of Maurienne formed this area of the Alps into the secular dynasty of Savoy. One of his successors, Amadeus IV, the "green count" of Savoy, exchanged lands with the French dauphin, Charles IV, to establish the rivers Rhone and Guiers as the boundary of Savoy (1355.) This treaty was to last until 1601.

• - from Bury, J.B., M.A., F.B.A. (plan.), The Cambridge Medieval History, vol. VIII

Savoyards served both French and English in war-torn northern France in the fourteenth century. The Earl of Savoy and a thousand lances fought valiantly at the battle of Crecy (1345) in the pay of the King of France. In 1380, elements from Savoy were commanded by the Earl of Buckingham in support of the Duke of Brittany against the French. Many men-at-arms who became freebooters obtained estates in Brittany and Normandy by ransoming wealthy captives.

• - from Froissart, Sir John, Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, rev. ed. [1901], vol. I, pps. 37, 42, 184

3 Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Brittanica (1860) 4 Baring-Gould, S., Family names and their origins, p. 265 (1913)

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