Scawen Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Molenick, St. Germains, co. Cornwall. This family is traced in their pedigree to the time of Edward I., when the representative m. the heiress of Molenick; they removed into co. Surrey about 1712, and became extinct in 1801, when the last James Scawen, Esq., M.P. co. Surrey, son of Thomas Scawen, by Tryphena, his wife, dau. and sole heiress of Lord James Russell, of Maidwell, d. leaving his sister, Tryphena, Countess Bathurst, his heiress. There was a younger branch settled at Trehane, in Probus, in consequence of a match with the co-heiress of Trehane; another junior branch, descended from a younger son of the same family, temp. Henry VIII., was of Arden, in Stoke Climsland). Same Arms.

(Melenick, co. Cornwall; Richard Scawen, aged 30, anno 40 Queen Elizabeth, a.d. 1597, son and heir of Edward Scawen, who d. 12 May, 1597, the ninth in descent from Willlam Scawen, of Melenick, temp. Edward I. Visit. Cornwall, 1620). Az. a chev. gu. betw. three griffins’ heads erased sa. those in chief respecting each other.

(Trehane, co. Cornwall; John Scawen, second son of Edward Scawen, living 1597, m. Elizabeth, dau. and co-heir of John Tbehane, Esq., of Trehane. Visit. Cornwall, 1620). Same Arms.