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Gentleman's Magazine 1867 part 1 p.65

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  Coulthart Family
Coulthart Arms, Boltongate

The Peerages, Blazon, and Genealogy.
list, ... another development which has grown apace lately, the emblazoning of false arms in memorial windows, !Ad Gloriam Dei!" Of this worst species of lie, we fear too many examples are to be found throughout the land. Glasgow Cathedral in its restored beauty is unfortunately somewhat marred by it; and the latest accounts we have of the ever recurring Gallovidian "House of Coulthart" presents us with a woodcut of a window in the church of Bolton-le-Gate, Cumberland, comprising, besides "figures of Zacharias, Amos, and Jeremias," the coat "qtrly of eight" ascribed to the late "William Coulthart, Esq. of Coulthart." Surely the angels in the upper tracery of the widow must weep as being thus made to share in a sham! We venture to feel pretty confident that this window would not have been put up within Lyon King's jurisdiction. We may note en passant, for the edification of persons interested in the study of surnames, that the "Chief of Coulthart," finding himself in danger of losing a collateral member of his distinguished "house," William Coulthart, "who represented the burgh of Wigton in Parliament from 1692 to the Union, of which he was a staunch supporter," now advances fresh claims. The able author of "Popular Genealogists," had shown that the real commissioner of that period was William Cultraine, provost of Wigton, whose name is well-known in connection with that cause celebre, the "Wigton Martyrs." In Mr. Anderson's "Genealogy and Surnames,"e the following remarkable statement is made: "The Galloway name of Culthart is one of great antiquity, and has assumed many forms: Coulthart, Coulthurst, Coulter, Coultram, Coltran, Coltherd, Colthurst, Coltart, Coltman, Colter, and Cather, are but variations of the same name." Mr. Anderson, however, takes the wise precaution of stating in his preface that the account given in his text rests entirely on the authority of the privately printed "genealogy" of the family, by Mr. Parker Knowles.
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e "Genealogy and Surnames." by Wm. Anderson, Editor of the "Scottish Nation." Edinburgh. 1865.
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