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The Coutts
family are a sept of the Farquharson clan, a Highland clan in Scotland. Septs
are families who have sworn allegiance to a particular Clan Chief. The name
Coutts is common in the history of the clan. The Coutts family are associated
with the Farquharson clan through the names Allan Coutts, James Coutts, and
Donald Coutts.
Coutts is a
common Aberdeenshire name, particularly in Upper Deeside. Its origin is thought to be territorial, as
in of Coults, which lies in Glen Gairn, north
of Ballater. The prominent family with
this name was granted a Crown charter in 1433 in which they received land in Auchtercoul (Ochtercoull). This
charter was granted in favour of William Coutts, his brother Alexander, and
their cousins John and Alexander. Other
notable persons of this name include William Coutts, provost of Montrose
towards the end of the sixteenth century.
A member of this family is believed to have founded the London merchant
bank of this name.
By the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the name was common in Edinburgh. There is a wide a variation in the spelling
of the name: Coittes, Cotis, Cottes, Cottis, Coutts, Cowtes, Cowtis, Kowtis, Coutes, Coutys, Cults.
William Cultis was enrolled as a burgess of
Aberdeen in 1531. The name Coates and
Coats are also variant spelling of Coutts, but are sometimes listed as separate
septs of Clan Farquharson. Coutts and
its related names predates the surname Farquharson by a considerable period and
its inclusion as a sept of the clan is on account of geographic proximity to
Farquharson lands.
