The associated coat of arms for this name are recorded in Sir Bernard Burkes General Armory. Ulster King of Arms in 1884. Registered in Scotland. This surname of ARBUCKLE is of local origin from ARBUCKLE in Lanarkshire. The earliest of the name on record appears to be John ARNBUKLE, who appears as a witness in Irvine in 1499. A later John ARBUKILE purchased land in Glasgow in 1511, and Alexander ARBUKILL was the curate of Galston in the same year. The first people in Scotland to acquire fixed surnames were the nobles and great landowners, who called themselves, or were called by others, after the lands they possessed. Surnames originating in this way are known as territorial. Formerly lords of baronies and regalities and farmers were inclined to magnify their importance and to sign letters and documents with the names of their baronies and farms instead of their Christian names and surnames. The abuse of this style of speech and writing was carried so far that an Act was passed in the Scots parliament in 1672 forbidding the practice and declaring that it was allowed only to noblemen and bishops to subscribe by their titles. Later instances of the name include Elizabeth ARBUCLE, who is recorded in the parish of Carluke in 1624, and William ARBUCKLES, a merchant in Glasgow, applied to the Privy Council for the job of transporting prisoners to New England in 1685. John ARBUCKLE (1838-1912) the philanthropist and sugar refiner, was born in Scotland. Roscoe Conkling (Fatty ARBUCKLE) 1887-1933, was the big-framed US silent film comedian, also a writer and director. His successful career in such films as 'The Butcher Boy' (1917) and 'The Hayseed' (1919) ended in 1921 after a sex-murder scandal. Although acquitted, he was spurned by the public and his films banned. It was not until the 10th century that modern hereditary surnames first developed, and the use of fixed names spread, first to France, and then England, then to Germany and all of Europe. In these parts of Europe, the individual man was becoming more important, commerce was increasing and the exact identification of each man was becoming a necessity. Even today however, the Church does not recognise surnames. Baptisms and marriages are performed through use of the Christian name alone. Thus hereditary names as we know them today developed gradually during the 11th to the 15th century in the various European countries.