"Think On"

"Think on" is the slogan of the McClellan coat of arms, topped as it often is with that gory head of a black man impaled on the end of a pike or sword. There are those who question whether it was actually the head of a wandering gypsy on the end of the sword. Regardless, many accounts say that it was a notorious criminal known as the "Black Morrow." As the story goes, a certain William McClellan, at the command or else suggestion of King James of Scotland, slayed the criminal and brought the impaled head to the Scottish king's throne room and cast it at his feet. When the king's memory seemed to go blank as to the promised reward, the McClellan prompted, "Think On." This was apparently the right thing to say as the king apparently did reward William McClellan with the title of Lord Kirkcudbright created for him. Or else the title was given to Robert Mcclellan in 1633 by Charles I of England. Something like that. William McClellan was killed in the Battle of Flodden, 1513, defending the King of Scotland. The castle was built later, in 1582, by Sir Thomas McClellan of Bombie. The ninth lord of Kirkcudbright, Sir Camden Grey, died in 1832 and the title has been extinct since that time. The title can only be passed to a male heir but Sir Camden Grey had only one daughter, Elizabeth. Elizabeth married James Lambert and they had seven children. I suppose that it would be somewhat difficult for them to inherit the Kirkcudbright title as they are not really from Kirkcudbright anyway and not really McClellans. I may have that much in common with the Lamberts. Anyway, nobody really cares to rehash that staff all the time. You can always read about this in Wikipedia or the clan page so you don't have to get it from me that there can never be another Lord Kirkcudbright. Some other surname perhaps would not be able to claim the Bombie history and many of the original McClellans no longer live there. So these are matters for the history books, not for current affairs that affect my personal life in anyway. So?