O’Shea Family Crest, Coat of Arms and Name History

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Blazons & Genealogy Notes

1) (co. Monmouth; granted by Segar). – Barry of six or and vert, a bordure erm. Crest—Two limbs of a tree raguled and couped in saltire ar. the sinister surmounting the dexter.
2) (Higham, co. Cumberland). – Per pale gu. and az. a chev. engr. or, betw. three lions ramp. ar. Crest—A cock’s head erased or, pellettée, combed and wattled gu. betw. two wings expanded of the first. Motto—Virtute non verbis.
3) (North Perrott Manor, co. Somerset). – Per pale gu. and az. a chev. engr. or, betw. three lions ramp. ar. Crest—A cock’s head erased or, pellettée, combed and wattled gu. betw. two wings expanded of the first. Motto—Finem respice.
4) (Oxted, co. Surrey). – Per pale gu. and az. a chev. engr. or, betw. three lions ramp. ar. Crest—A cock’s head erased or, pellettée, combed and wattled gu. betw. two wings expanded of the first.
5) None – Barry of six or and vert, a bordure gu.
6) (Fun. Ent. Ulster’s Office, 1666). – Gu. a chev. engr. or, betw. three lions ramp. ar.
7) (Harewood, co. Hereford, bart.). – Per pale az. and gu. a chev. betw. three lions ramp. or. Crest—A lion’s head erased or, issuing out of a ducal coronet, flames of fire from the mouth ppr. crowned of the first.
8) (Wren-Hoskyns, Wroxhall Abbey, co. Warwick; exemplified to Chandos Hoskyns, second son of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, Bart., of Harewood, who assumed, on marrying, in 1837, Theodosia Anne Martha, dau. and heir of Christopher Wren, Esq., of Wroxhall Abbey, the additional surname and arms of that family, descended in direct line from the celebrated Sir Christopher Wren). – Same Arms as Hoskyns, Bart., quartering Wren, viz., ar. a chev. betw. three lions’ heads erased az. on a chief gu. three crosses crosslet or, a canton of the first. Crests—1st, as Hoskyns, Bart., a crescent az. for distinction; 2nd, Wren: A lion’s head erased ar. (formerly the head was borne az.) pierced by a broken spear, broken off on the dexter, cuspated on the sinister, collared gu. with a cross crosslet of the last for distinction. Mottoes—Vincula da linguae, vel tibi lingua dabit, for Hoskyns; Numero, pondere, et mensura, for Wren, ancient; Virtuti fortuna comes, Wren, modern.
9) (Bemenster). – Per pale az. and gu. a chev. betw. three lions or.
10) (Carines and Ellenglaze, co. Cornwall). Motto—Vis unita fortior. – Per pale gu. and az. on a chev. or, betw. three lions pass. ar. as many cinquefoils of the first.
11) (monument in Bodmin Church, Rev. Anthony Hosken, 1791). – Per pale az. and gu. a chev. betw. three lions ramp. ar.