B53238-Taaffe

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Name of the family:

Taaffe

Blason:

Same Arms.

Crest(s):

An arm in armour embowed, holding in the hand a sword all ppr. pommel and hilt or.

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Motto:

In hoc signo spes men.

Info about the family:

Ballybraggan, co. Louth; descended from Christopher Taaffe, eldest son of John Taaffe, Esq., of Ballybraggan, temp. Queen Elizabeth, who was fifth in descent from Sir Nicholas Taaffe, Sheriff co. Louth 1441; John Taaffe, eldest son of the above Christopher Taaffe, had livery of his father's estates 1633, but joining along with his son Christopher Taaffe, in the Rebelllon of 1641, the lands were forfeited

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Page in the book:

994

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