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Some Special Interests => Heraldry Crests and Coats of Arms => Topic started by: normanlink on Sunday 05 August 12 20:14 BST (UK)

Title: Marris Crests/Coat of Arms
Post by: normanlink on Sunday 05 August 12 20:14 BST (UK)
Hi, Does anyone have any information about the Marris Crest or Coat of Arms?
Family history goes back to William 1 (1066).
Thanks for any help.
Title: Re: Marris Crests/Coat of Arms
Post by: KGarrad on Sunday 05 August 12 20:51 BST (UK)
There is no such thing as a family crest or coat-of-arms! ;D

Arms are granted to an individual, and his direct-line descendants may use the arms.

Unless you can prove direct descent from the person who was awarded the arms, then they aren't yours.

See http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.htm
Title: Re: Marris Crests/Coat of Arms
Post by: GrahamSimons on Sunday 05 August 12 22:42 BST (UK)
There is no-one of that name in my Armorial Families (1902).

To continue to rain on your parade, may I recommend the book My Ancestors Came With The Conqueror, Anthony J Camp, Society of Genealogists 1990, ISBN 0946789029? I was encouraged to read this by a genealogy of one of my ancestors published in some editions of Burke's Landed Gentry, where the descent was claimed into the 10th century?
Title: Re: Marris Crests/Coat of Arms
Post by: davidbappleton on Monday 06 August 12 17:48 BST (UK)
Burke's General Armory lists one Marris, in Barton, county York, bearing:

Gules a saltire engrailed argent

with the crest, A castle proper.

Of course, whether this Marris is related to the family you are asking about is a matter for genealogical research.

David