B38271-Massey

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Name of the family:

Massey

Blason:

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, quarterly gu. and or, in the 1st and 4th, quarters three escallops ar. for distinction a canton of the second, for Masset; 2nd and 3rd, per saltire or and erm. on a chief per pale gu. and sa. three lions ramp. ar. collared of the first, for Oliver.

Crest(s):

1st, Masset: A moorcock sa. combed and wattled gu. charged on the breast for distinction with a cross crosslet or; 2nd, Oliver: A lion's gamb erased grasping a branch of olive ppr. and a chain therefrom pendent a bugle or.

Motto:

Masset: Pro libertate patriae; 2nd, Oliver: Nunquam fallentis termes Olivae.

Info about the family:

Oliver-Masset ; Denfield and Dunham Massey, co. Chester; derived in a direct line from Hamon Massbt, first baron of Dunham Maasey, temp. William the Conqueror; Maoaret-Elieabeth, only child and heiress of the Rev. Milungton Massey-Jackson, M.A., of Dunham Massey and Baguley Hall, co. Chester, Vicar of Warminster, Wilts, and Rector of Kingston Deverill, m. Richard Mansel Oliver, Esq., of Melton Lodge, co. Leicester, who assumed by royal licence, 1844, the additional surname of Masset

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