Major-General John Macourtie SHORTT HEICS
b.1803 m.1836 (Theresa Reynolds) d.1866
Or a griffin passant Azure on a chief ermine two chess rooks Gules
Sources:
1) Sir James Balfour Paul’s Scottish Ordinary -1873
2) London Gazette
Family details (not necessarily complete);
Major-General John Macourtie SHORTT HEICS
1. Charles Tindal SHORTT b.1837 m.1866
2. Capt John SHORTT RN b.1837
3. Walter Henry SHORTT b.1847
4. Mary Theresa SHORTT b.1840
5. Theresa SHORTT b.1841
6. Flora Lucy SHORTT b.1843
Sources:
1) Ancestry.co.uk
2) London Gazette
3) Burke’s landed Gentry
