Fitzgerald-Osborne Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Lord of Ynys-y-Maengwyn and Coraygedol, in Merioneth, designated by Welsh genealogists by the further denomination of Osber Wyddel, or the Stranger from Ireland, and more commonly Osbwrn Wyddel, or Osbom the Irishmen. This chief was of the same stock as the Fitzgeralds, Lords of Desmond, in Ireland, and emigrated thence to Wales about the middle of the thirteenth century, where being in high favour with Llewelyn ap Iorworth, Prince of North Wales, he obtained from that monarch grants of Ynys-y-Maengwyn, and Cors-y-gedol, and other extensive possessions, and became progenitor of several of the most eminent families in the principality. Descendants: 1) Vaughans, of Cors-y-Gedol; 2) Yales, of Plas-yn-Yale; 3) Lloyds, of Plas-Enion; 4) Rogers’s, of Bryn-tangor; 5) Lloyds, of Carrog; 6) Lloyds, of Rhagatt; 7) Gwyns, of Ynys-y-Maengwyn; 8) Morgans, of Draws Vynydd; 9) Lewises, of Festiniog; 10) Jones’s, of Maes-y-Garnmedd; 11) Wynnes, of Glynn; 12) Wynns (by change of name Nanneys), of Maes-y-Neuadd; 13) Wynns, of Peniarth). Erm. a saltire gu.