Answer:  

Yes, Stitchel(l) is a Scottish name and appears in Black's Surnames of Scotland: "From the lands of Stitchel in Roxburghshire. The name appears to have travelled north to Aberdeenshire by the eighteenth century."

It is said that shipwrecked sailors from the Spanish Armada settled in Scotland but I cannot find a Burns' poem about such a Stitchell. If anyone knows of it please get in touch.

 

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