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The Cargile Coat of Arms is officially documented in Burke's General Armory. The original description of the arms (shield) is as follows: "Erm, A Saltire Gu." When translated the blazon also describes the original colors of the Cargile arms as: "Ermine: A Red Saltire."

The surname Cargill/Cargile is derived from the ancient lands of Cargill, lying in the present Parish of Cargill in Perthshire, Scotland. The Parish of Cargill is "ten miles inland from the east coast of Scotland, near where the Isla River flows into the River Tay." The parish name has undergone many changes, as language itself has altered. The Celtic derivations of the name Cargill have been given, but the most authoritative is the one meaning "white fort." The ancient lands of Cargill lay in the immediate vicinity of an old Roman camp. The Barony of Cargill afterward included several other lands besides the lands of Cargill, and the Parish of Cargill included the two baronies of Cargill and Stobhall.

The Cargill place is first mentioned in a charter granted in 1164 by Malcolm IV to the Abbot and convent of Scone, confirming lands and privileges granted them by Alexander I and David I. Some time between 1189 and 1196, William, the Lion, granted a charter to Richard de Montfichet of the "land of Kergille as fully as I held it in my hand and by those right bounds that used to belong to it on the day I gave it to him to be held of the kind and his successors with full rights of barony." (This is found in a copy of the charter in the Register House, Edinburgh.) During this same period, Richard, the Lion, granted some lands in Kergill to the monks of Cupar. And in 1220, William de Montfichet, son of Richard, granted a charter to the monks of Cupar "in my town of Kergillo." Between 1199 and 1225, Bernard de Kergylle (chaplain of Kergill) witnessed several charters of the Bishop of Dunkeld, the Kirk of Cargill being a mensal church of the bishopric of Dunkeld. The first person of the surname Cargill was Peter de Kergill, ca 1246. Others in this family lineage held title to the lands, including Walter de Kergyl, 1260; Bernard de Kergylle, 1283; Walter de Kergille, 1296; Iwyn de Carghille, 1296.

The Montfichet's or Montifexo's married into the Drummond family, specifically, Mary de Montifexo. She married Sir John Drummond about 1345. Sir John Drummond also obtained with her the Barony of Cargill which ever since has remained in the hands of the Drummonds or their heirs of line.

Sir John Drumond's heirs were named Lord Drummond in 1488 and afterwards the Earl of Perth in 1605. The Drummonds principal seat was in the adjoining Barony of Stobhall, lying south of the Barony of Cargill. They style themselves "of Cargill." "Sir John Drummond of Cargill." (Scots Peerage). The information above can also be documented in a book compiled by Florence B. Myers, San Antonio, TX, copyrighted 1997 "Cargill/Cargile/Cargal of the South and Southwest."

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