Sutherland Clan's Scottish Castle Classic Sticker

This design features a wonderful photo of Scotland's Dunrobin Castle, seat of the Sutherland Clan for centuries, as well as the family's popular green and blue tartan. DNA seems to be revealing that nearly all Sutherlands testing -- of any spelling: Southerland, Sutherlin, Southerlan, etc. -- have DNA of the family's founder: Freskyn. For centuries, the family has lived and emigrated from the area around the Moray Firth in northeastern Scotland, about a mile north of Golspie. Dunrobin Castle is the historic seat of the Sutherland clan and one of the great houses in the country. The castle and its garden are open for tours during normal times. Some of the structure is ancient, but much is relatively new, dating from the 1800s. However, the lands of Sutherland, as much as one million acres, were acquired before 1211 by Hugh de Moravia, Lord of Duffus, grandson of the Flemish nobleman Freskin. Hugh’s son William became the first Earl of Sutherland about 1235. This design features a photograph of the castle, framed with palest blue, reflecting from the sky and tartan. The hue repeats in the clan and castle names in a bold font. The photo is banded by the popular green and blue family tartan. The photo is public domain and the tartan is under Crown Copyright from the Scottish Register of Tartans.