Craigends of the 20th Century a Renfrewshire estate remembered

[...] a good example [of a charge taken from the mother's coat-of-arms] being the fess chequy in the arms of Cunningham of Craigends which derives from the marriage of William Cunningham (d 1513) to Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir Walter Stewart of Arthurlee, in 1483/84. The family used originally A pall surmounted by a fess chequy, followed by Quarterly, 1st & 4th, Argent, a shakefork sable; 2nd & 3rd, Or, a fess chequy azure and argent, the undifferenced arms of Cunningham and Stewart. Indeed when the matriarch is an heiress, then her arms are more likely to be quartered, exemplified by Cunningham of Craigends above [...]