Quote Originally Posted by Cygnus View Post
Rex,

I always thought that the Macqueens' cheifly crest was a kind of cat (an heraldic tyger), not a wolf; though the chiefly arms do prominently feature wolves' heads, so I could be mistaken.

And thank you for your answer on cap badges and tartans for these clans - that is a question I had been meaning to ask for some time!
Yes, Corrybrough himself used a tiger as crest and his was the chiefly line of the family. I don't know offhand when arms were acquired by this branch of the MacQueens but, by the mid-18C the estates were so involved that to use the tiger today is a bit "antique". There is no recognised chief in the 21C. The wolf of a cadet branch, that of Polochaig, seems to have been adopted by the remains of the clan by the end of the 18C even though by then the lands had been reassumed by the Mackintoshes. We think that this transference of recognition was an 18C way of selecting a new chief