Karr Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Seton-Karr, Kippilaw, co. Roxburgh. Lieut.-Col. Andsew Ker, grandson of Andrew Ker, of Zair, same co., purchased the estate of Kippilaw, 1657. His grandson, John Karr, changed the spelling of his name and entailed the estate on his sister, Katherine Karr, who m. Gilbert Ramsay. Her dau. and eventual heir m. Daniel Seton, of Powder Hall, and had a son, John Seton Karr, who s. to the estates, and was s. by his nephew, Andrew Seton Karr, Esq., of Kippilaw, grandfather of Henry Seton Karr, Esq., of Kippilaw, and II, Queen’s Gardens, Hyde Park, London, b. 1853). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, gu. on a chev. ar. three mullets of the field, in base a stag’s head erased of the second, for Karr; 2nd and 3rd, or an eagle displ. sa., charged on breast with an antique crown ppr. betw. three crescents az., all within a double tressure flory counter- flory gu., for Seton. Crest—1st, KAas : Out of an antique crown a dexter hand erect holding a dagger all ppr. Motto (over)—Avant sans peur; 2nd, Seton: On a ducal coronet or, a wyvern ppr. Motto (over)—Hazard et forward.