B41602-Norreys

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Name of the family:

Norreys

Blason:

Quarterly, ar. and gu., in the 2nd and 3rd quarters a fret or, over all a fesse az.

Crest(s):

An eagle sa. rising from a mount vert.

Info about the family:

Speke, co. Lancaster; an ancient family in that co., descended from William Nobbeys, Esq., of Sutton, who m. Joan, heiress of Speke, dau. of Sir John Moilyneux, Knt., of Sefton. The eventual heiress, Mary, only child of Thomas Norreys, Esq., of Speke, M.P. for Liverpool, m. Lord Sydney Beauclerk. the families of Norreys of Bray, Lords Norreys of Rycote, Norreys of Fifield, and Norreys of Davyhulme, all descended from younger sons of the house of Speke. Of the house of Speke were the Norreys of Bray, co. Berks, who eventually became Barons Norreys

Comment (Additional info):

The original crest of the family appears, by a copy from a window in Childwall Church, co. Lancaster (Harl. MSS. 1997), to have been a woman's head couped at the breasts, but on the marriage of Sir Henry Norreys, temp. Henry V., with the dau. and heir of Roger Erneis, of Chester, the Erneis' bearing was taken for a crest, viz...

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737

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