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Blackstock is a Scottish surname of local (place-name) origin. George F. Black's The Surnames of Scotland takes it "from some small place of the name which I cannot find", and records that the name is rarely met with and that no family owning lands of the same name has been met with. A "Blakstok of that Ilk" does appear in Workman's Manuscript of arms (c.1565-1566), but Black is explicit that no landed family of the name is known. Dated records trace individual Blackstocks mainly in and around Dumfries, with others in Edinburgh, Peebles, Minigaff and at Craignethan in Lanarkshire, between 1517 and 1767. The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs lists no Blackstock chief; a modern family society was founded in the United States about 1980.

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The Blackstock Story

  1. 1517

    William Blackstok witnesses a notarial instrument[4]

  2. 1524

    William Blackstock is appointed clerk of court[4]

  3. c.1565-1566

    "Blakstok of that Ilk" appears in Workman's Manuscript of arms[4]

  4. 1570

    John Blakstok signs the Band of Dumfries[4]

  5. 1641

    John Blackstock is a merchant in Dumfries[4]

  6. 1659

    James Blackstok is tenant of Andrew Hay of Craignethan[4][5]

  7. 1673

    Robert Blackstock is tenant in the barony of Mousewald[4]

  8. 1689

    John Blackstocks is burgess of Peebles[4]

  9. 1712

    David Blackstocks is appointed constable in Littleclyde[4]

  10. 1767

    William Blackstock is tanner in Minigaff[4]

  11. c.1980-1991

    Herbert Earl Blackstock founds a family society, incorporated in Texas 1991[2]

Visit the Blackstock Homeland

Map of Scotland with Blackstock places marked

Craignethan Castle, Lanarkshire

James Blackstok was a tenant of Andrew Hay of Craignethan in 1659, the year Hay bought the castle; Historic Environment Scotland names Hay but no Blackstock.[4][5]

Dumfries

Family members recorded as a merchant (1641), a tenant (1673) and a shoemaker (1738), among others, in and around Dumfries.[4]

Edinburgh

John Blakstok held a tenement in Edinburgh in 1549; Agnes Blackstock held a tenement in the same city about 150 years later.[4]

Peebles

John Blackstocks was burgess of Peebles in 1689.[4]

Minigaff

William Blackstock was a tanner in Minigaff in 1767.[4]

Map outline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins use official Historic Environment Scotland grid references.

Clan Blackstock Today

ChiefThe Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs lists no Blackstock chief. George F. Black's The Surnames of Scotland records that "the name is rarely met with, and no family owning lands of the same name has been met with" -- so although a "Blakstok of that Ilk" appears in Workman's Manuscript of arms (c.1565-1566), no documented chiefly line follows from it.

Surnames linked to Clan Blackstock

These family names are connected with Clan Blackstock. Each list says who records the link.

Spellings of the name

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Questions about Clan Blackstock

Does Clan Blackstock have a chief?

No. The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs lists no Blackstock chief, and George F. Black's The Surnames of Scotland records that no family owning lands of the Blackstock name has been met with. The Blackstock Society is a modern family organisation founded in the United States, not a chiefly house.

Where does the Blackstock name come from?

It is a place-name (locative) surname. George F. Black takes it from "some small place of the name which I cannot find", and notes that the name is rarely met with in the records.

Is Blackstock a sept of Clan Douglas or Clan Maxwell?

Both links are claimed in the family's own modern history (Electric Scotland), but by that same source 'neither have any written proof'.

Where did the Blackstock family live in Scotland?

Mainly in and around Dumfries, with individuals also recorded in Edinburgh, Peebles, Minigaff and at Craignethan in Lanarkshire, between 1517 and 1767.

Who founded the modern Blackstock Society?

Herbert Earl Blackstock and cousins, around 1980; it was incorporated as a non-profit in Texas, USA, in 1991.

Is there a literary Blackstock connected to Robert Burns?

George F. Black records that, according to Gilbert Burns (the poet's brother), a Miss Jane Blackstock was the heroine of Robert Burns's song 'O Poortith Cauld'.

Sources

  1. Find a clan: Blackstock, Council of Scottish Clans & Associations (COSCA)
  2. Clan Blackstock, Electric Scotland (webclans)
  3. Members of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs
  4. George F. Black, The Surnames of Scotland, entry 'Blackstock', as reproduced on the society's clan information sheet, The Scottish Society of Louisville, Inc. (clan reference sheet citing Black/New York Public Library)
  5. Craignethan Castle (SM90083), Historic Environment Scotland