coronet, ducal, out of a

Nevill, Cosmo Charles George (1823 - 1896) (Stamp 1)

Dimensions:
Crest Out of a ducal coronet a bull’s head ermine

Heraldic Charges:

bull's head

coronet, ducal, out of a

Johnson, Maurice (1688 - 1755) (Stamp 1)

Dimensions:
Crest Out of a ducal coronet a pair of wings

Possibilities for Identification:

Fairbairn’s Crests pl 109/8: Bass; Bulteel; Eredy; Folion; Gipp; Johnson; Sonibanck; Tanke; Van Straubenzee.

Heraldic Charges:

coronet, ducal, out of a

wings (2)

Unidentified Stamp

Dimensions:
Crest Out of a ducal coronet a pair of wings

Possibilities for Identification:

Fairbairn’s Crests pl 109/8: Bass; Bulteel; Eredy; Folion; Gipp; Johnson; Sonibanck; Tanke; Van Straubenzee. This is very close to the stamp for Maurice Johnson (1688-1745), but he had been dead for 50 years when this book was published. It could be the stamp of one of his sons or grandsons.

Heraldic Charges:

coronet, ducal, out of a

wings (2)

Unidentified Stamp

Dimensions:
Crest Out of a ducal coronet a wolf's head couped

Possibilities for Identification:

The Heraldry of Crests (London, 1829) on plate 13 gives this crest as Howard. The 1860 edition of Fairbairn copies this without offering any further information; later editions simply omit it. Burke's General armory does not give this crest for any family of Howard.

Heraldic Charges:

coronet, ducal, out of a

wolf's head

Unidentified Stamp

Dimensions:
Crest Out of a ducal coronet a demi-phoenix [?] or demi-eagle wings displayed Coronet of a Baron

Possibilities for Identification:

Of the 39 crests listed by Fairbairn, only one fits the bill: Parkyns. It is either Thomas Boothby Parkyns, 1st Baron Rancliffe (1755–1800); or George Augustus Henry Anne Parkyns, 2nd Baron Rancliffe (1785–1850).

Heraldic Charges:

coronet, ducal, out of a

eagle, demi-

phoenix

Unidentified Stamp

Dimensions:
Crest Out of a ducal coronet a demi griffin segreant

Possibilities for Identification:

Fairbairn’s Crests (plate 64/4):- Besney [or Bestney of Hertfordshire]; Connocke of Cornwall; Coppin of Norfolk; Griffin of London; Lane of County Roscommon in Ireland; Page; Powell of Hinton in Herefordshire, of St Alban’s, of London and of Herefordshire; Rowles of Surrey; Royden of Devon; Vidler.

Heraldic Charges:

coronet, ducal, out of a

griffin, demi-

Unidentified Stamp

Dimensions:
Crest Out of a ducal coronet a peacock holding in its beak an ear of wheat and a horseshoe

Possibilities for Identification:

The stamp would appear to be a peafowl, though without its tail feathers raised (“in pride”), and holding in its beak an ear of wheat and a horseshoe. It is not listed in Fairbairn’s Crests, nor in Papworth.

Heraldic Charges:

coronet, ducal, out of a

horseshoe

peacock

wheat, ear of

Unidentified Stamp

Dimensions:
Arms On a chevron between in chief two lions combattant and in base a garb three annulets Crest Out of a ducal coronet a griffin’s head erased holding a broken arrow point downwards Motto SPES MEA IN DEO

Possibilities for Identification:

Motto not in Burke's General armory, nor in Fairbairn's Crests. Arms not in Papworth. Crest not in Fairbairn.

Heraldic Charges:

annulets (3)

arrow

chevron, on a, between

coronet, ducal, out of a

garb

griffin's head

lions rampant combatant (2)