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Crest A demi-lion rampant collared holding a shuttle in paleBurke’s General armory describes the crest as having on the collar three bezants. In his A Genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry, Burke does mention Peel of Peele Fold, Lancashire and Cornwall; Peel of Bryn-y-Pys, of Flint, Montgomery, and Norfolk; Peel of Accrington, Lancashire; Peel of Stone Hall, Pembrokeshire; Peel of Aylesmore House; Peel, of Singleton Brook, Manchester, all of which have three bezants on the collar. Fairbairn’s Crests (plate 312/2) add Peel of Drayton Manor, Staffordshire; [and six other Peels], all with bezants on the collar. Possibly Joseph Peel (1801-1866), the eldest son of George Peel and his wife Rebecca Barlow. He worked at Peel, Williams & Co, an iron foundery and engineering works founded by his father. In 1827 he married Anne Voile of Rugby, and had three children.

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Crest Out of a marquess's coronet a demi lion holding a battleaxe in paleSimilar to Fairbairn’s Crests plate 15/4, the but without the coronet.

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Crest A demi lion gorged with a collar sable [or checky?] holding an escutcheon charged with a cross crosslet fitchyNone of the crests illustrated in Fairbairn’s Crests match this stamp.

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Arms Three crescents between in chief two horses and in base a unicorn's head erased Crest A demi lion, a sword blade issuant from his forehead between two laurel branches holding a crescent Motto FRAENA VEL AUREA NOLO Arms not in Papworth; crest not in Fairbairns.

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Crest A demi-lion holding in its dexter palm a dagger Monogram J P (or G J P?) Possible candidates from Fairbairn's Crests, plate 10/2 are: Packington; Parry; Peace; Pearmain; Pears; Pepper; Percivall; Picken; Pigg; Pomeroy; Powell; Praed; Priddle; Primrose; Prouse. Papworth provides one further candidate: Pulham