Coat of Arms

[SteveD]

Does anybody know of a UK web site where I could research an existing coat of arms?  (Not a company offering to design spurious family crests).

 

Photo here:

 

http://img41.exs.cx/img41/3074/coatofarms2ue.jpg

[ursula62]

It's not a website  where you can do your own research, but you could contact the College of Arms. They will probably charge a fee. 

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/About/11.htm

[Octavius]

http://www.heraldica.org/

http://www.aragon10.free-online.co.uk/blazon.html

http://digiserve.com/heraldry/

 

As a start you need to find the heraldic words for the elements of the arms, for example, pale means the shield is in two halves (sometimes meaning a husband wife), the birds (I think) look like martlets and the lines do not appear to be chevrons as they are horizontal not diagonal

[SteveD]

Thanks very much.  That will keep me out of mischief for a while!

[Peter Pedant]

hi  Stevie !

Is the saying on the coat - Industria didat? - yes I have been down to phrases and sayings.....

you know that there is a dictionary of sayngs for coats of arms? I found one at a local library when i was doing the book type of search that you are doing on the internet. The dictionary had an obvious title....Obviously I cannot guarantee that your local has a copy.

Good luck

[SteveD]

Thanks, Peter Pedant. Yes, the motto is "Industria Didat". "Progress through Industry" seems to be a good translation.

 

I'll have to do all I can on the world-wide Interweb as my local libraries (in Belgium) are unlikely to have the book you mention.