B50040-Shirley

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Name of the family:

Shirley

Blason:

Paly of six or and az. a quarter erm., reduced during the 17th and 18th centuries to a canton, but the older arms were, Paly of six or and sa., without any quarter.

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The head of a Saracen ppr. couped at the neck, wreathed round the temples or and nz. Budget-A horseshoe, for Febbebs; a Bouchicr knot, for Boucui er.

Info about the family:

Shirley, co. Derby, Staunton Harold, co. Leicester, and Chartley, co. Stafford; descended from Sewallis de Etinodon, living temp. Edward the Confessor, "whose name," says Dugdale, " argues him to hove been of the old English stock." At the Conquest the Lordship of Ettington was granted to Henby, .Ear! nf Ferran, in Normandy, one of the principal adventurers under William 1., and was held under him by this Sewallis, in whose posterity it continues to the present day. The senior line of the descendants oi Sbwalus, theSinnLEYS, of Staunton Harold, are now represented by Sewallis Edward Shirley, Earl Ferrers

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