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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)
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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.
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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
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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?
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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