Clan Buchan (Buchan Tartan)

1. About Clan Buchan (Buchan Tartan)

2. Clan Buchan History (Buchan Tartan)

3. Clan Buchan Tartans

4. Clan Buchan Crest & Coats of Arms

4.1 Clan Buchan Crest

Worn by all of the name and ancestry

4.2 Clan Buchan Coat of Arms

5. Clan Buchan Places & People

5.1 Clan Buchan Places

Auchmacoy House

The Clan Buchan has owned the Auchmacoy estate in Aberdeenshire for more than 700 years. In 1830, the former Auchmacoy House was replaced by the present structure.

5.2 Clan Buchan People

Alexander Buchan (11 April 1829 - 13 May 1907)

The name "Buchan Spells," which derives from Alexander Buchan, who first observed these aberrations from the typical predicted seasonal temperatures, is often used in meteorology. He made the weather map the cornerstone of weather prediction.

5.3 John Buchan (26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940)

Son of a minister who attended Glasgow and Oxford colleges before being admitted to the bar in 1901. He is renowned for penning "The Thirty-nine Steps," which Alfred Hitchcock popularized in his movie of the same name.

From 1935 until his passing at the age of 64 in 1940, Buchan served as Canada's 15th governor general.

6. Associated Names

Although there are no recognized septs within Clan Buchan, the following surnames have been associated with the Buchan region in Scotland's northeast:

Basken, Baskin, Bede, Bichan, Bichen, Bonnieville, Boyne, Buck, Buckie, Bucky, Cawsell, Chapp, Chrystal, Clapperton, Coscrach, Costie, Costy, Cranach, Crannach, Cruddon, Cruden, Crudon, Crystal, Crystal, Crystall, Fitchie, Fitchy, Gammerie, Gammery, Hardin, Hardman/ Hardnan, Kermack, Leisk, Mac, Meason, Merson, Mondie, Mondy, Mundie, Mundy, Nible, Niblo, Ogston, Ogstone, Ogstoun, Prince, Ratcliff, Ratliff, Rattcliff, Rattliff, Runcie, Runcy, Shakle, Tarves, Tarvis, Teunion, Teunon, Tewnion, Tinnon, Tucks, Wadsworth, Wadsworther, West, Whammond, Whyman, Whymon, and Willgook