Meares Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(co. Lancaster). Same Arms.

(Corsley, co. Wilts; settled there 1341). Ar. a ship with three masts, sails furled and shrouded sa.

(Meares Court, co. Westmeath; descended from Lewis Meares, b. 1625, youngest son of John Meares, Esq., of Corsley; John Meares, Esq., of Meares Court, grandson of John Meares, Esq., of Meares Court, temp. Queen Anne and George I., d.s.p. 1790, and bequeathed the estates to his nephew, William Devenish, son of his sister, Katherine Meares and her husband, John Devenish Esq., of Patrick, when the male representation of the family devolved on George Galbraith Meares, grandson of Rev. Robert Meares the brother of John Meares, Esq., of Meares Court, temp. Queen Anne, and is now vested in George Gerald Meares, Esq.). Same Arms. Crest—A kingfisher ppr. Motto—Omnia providentiæ committo.

(Fun. Ent. Ulster’s Office, 1654, Margaret, dau. and heir of Major William Meares, Corporal of the Field, and wife of John Kennedy, Esq., of Mullagh, co. Longford). Ar. three ancient galleys sa.