Re: looking for family crest.
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Re: looking for family crest.
Kathryn Gaskill 12/15/99
There is a difference between a family crest and a coat of arms, both of which were granted by whomever in England years ago.
The family "crest" is a hand grasping an anchor emerging from the sea.
The family moto is "Spes" -- if you didn't have Latin it means "hope"
There is a coat of arms as well which consists of green and silver "waves" -- I found all this stuff in England in the late 1960s -- some groups of the English family claim the came over with William the Conquerer.
Anyway, most of my stuff was destroyed in a flood but I do have an excellent copy of the coat of arms/crest sans motto from a document edfamily history of someone else from the 1930s -- it can be colored copied if you are interested.