Kintoisch History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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• Scotland
• Ireland

Etymology of Kintoisch

The Kintoisch surname comes from the Anglicized form of the Gaelic name, Mac an Toisich. Kintoisch is a patronymic surname, which belongs to the category of hereditary surnames. Many patronymic surnames were formed by adopting the given name of an ancestor of the bearer, while others came from popular religious names, and from the names of secular heroes. The surname Kintoisch comes from the Gaelic name Mac an Toisich, which means "son of the chief, leader, or thane." Members of this distinguished Pictish family were originally found in Moray.

Kintoisch Coat of Arms Creation

There exists a declaration from the Lord Lyon in the year 1672 in favour of the Laird of Macintosh, which says that he is the only undoubted Chief of the name of Macintosh and of the Clan Chattan, which comprehended Macpherson, Macgillivray, Farquharson, Macqueen, Macphail, Macbean, and others. This ended the claims of the chief of the Macphersons to be chief of the Clan Chattan.

In common with the Macphersons and the Sutherlands, they have a cat as their crest. Like the Macphersons, their motto is " Touch not the cat bot (without) a glove," and they have in their arms a right hand holding a dagger as a badge of their faithfulness to King Robert the Bruce in killing his enemy, the Cumming. They claim to be descended from Macduff, a Thane of Fife, and for this reason they have the red lion of Scotland in their shield. The boar's head in their shield shows that Lachlan Macintosh married Jean Gordon of Lochinvar, and there is a lymphad in memory of ancestors being driven to the coast of Caithness (Cattu), or as Nisbet has it, for marry-ing the heiress of the Clan Chattan. 1

Early Origins of the Kintoisch family

Early History of the Kintoisch family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Kintoisch research. Another 424 words (30 lines of text) covering the years 1263, 1314, 1336, 1396, 1411, 1594, 1704, 1715, 1745, 1746, 1833, 1890 and 1957 are included under the topic Early Kintoisch History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Kintoisch Spelling Variations

The appearance of the printing press and the first dictionaries in the last few hundred years did much to standardize spelling. Prior to that time scribes spelled according to sound, a practice that resulted in many spelling variations. Kintoisch has been spelled Kyntosh, Intosh, Intoch, Toshe, Tosh, McKyntosh, McKintosh, McKintoisch, McKintoch, McIntosh, McComtosh, McKintowse, McIntosh, MacKyntosh, MacIntoch, MacIntosh, McIntoch, Mackintowse, MacKintosh and many more.

Early Notables of the Kintoisch family

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Migration of the Kintoisch family to Ireland

Some of the Kintoisch family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
Another 47 words (3 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Migration of the Kintoisch family

The expense of the crossing to the North American colonies seemed small beside the difficulties of remaining in Scotland. It was a long and hard trip, but at its end lay the reward of freedom. Some Scots remained faithful to England and called themselves United Empire Loyalists, while others fought in the American War of Independence. Much of this lost Scottish heritage has been recovered in the last century through Clan societies and other patriotic Scottish organizations. A search of immigration and passenger lists revealed many important, early immigrants to North America bearing the name of Kintoisch: Enoch Macintosh, who came to Virginia in 1668; Henry Mackintosh, who arrived in Boston in 1702; Adam Macintosh, who settled in Georgia in 1736; John Mackintosh, who came to Georgia in 1736.