B21517-Firman

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Name of the family:

Firman

Blason:

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, ar. on a chev. sa. betw. three lions' heads erased gu. a sun in splendour betw. two anchors erect or, for Firman; 2nd and 3rd, per pale or and gu. a cross engr. counterchanged, in the centre point a crescent also counterchanged, for Brooke.

Crest(s):

In front of two cross crosslets fitchée in saltire gu. a sun in splendour or.

Motto:

Firmus in Christo.

Info about the family:

Fimount, co. Tipperary; granted to Humphrey Brooke Firman, Esq., of Gateforth, co. York, eldest son of the late Humphrey Brooke Firman, Esq., of Brayton, same co., by Anne Louisa, his wife, dau. of Thomas Gibbon FitzGibbon, Esq., of Ballyseeda, co. Limerick, grandson of Lieut.-Col. Brooke Firman, and great-grandson of Thomas Peirson Firman, Esq., of Firmount, by Mary, his wife, dau. of Gabriel Brooke, Esq., of Gateforth, and sister of Humphrey Brooke, afterwards Osbaldeston, Esq., of Gateforth, upon the extinction of whose descendants, the descendants of his said sister, Mary Brooke, viz., the Firmans, of Firmount, became co-heirs of the Brooke family as well as of the Osbaldestons, of Hunmanby, co. York, descended from Sir Richard Osbaldeston, Attorney-General for Ireland, temp. Charles I.

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350

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