Shipperdson Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Pidding Hall, Garth, and Murton, co. Durham; traceable, among the records of Halmot Court, Bishopwearmouth, to the time of Edward III.; Edward Shipperdson, Esq., of Pidding Hall, Garth, and Murton, son of Ralph Shipperdson, Esq., of Pidding Hall, Garth, was descended from Edward Shipperdson, Esq., by Margaret, his wife, sister and heir of William Simpson, Esq., of Pidding Hall, Garth). Quarterly of six, 1st and 6th, sa. on a bend ar. three lozenges az. each charged with a planetary sun in its glory, Shipperdson; 2nd, per bend nebulée or and sa. a lion ramp. counterchanged, Sympson; 3rd, az. six annulets or, three, two, and one, Musgrave; 4th, gu. a sword in pale ar. hilted or, in base a serpent nowed ppr. and on a chief of the third two doves close, beaked and legged of the first, for Kirshaw; 5th, ar. a chev. sa. betw. three fountains or sykeses ppr., for Sykes. Crest—A hand issuing out of a cloud and grasping a sword ppr. Motto—Nubem eripiam.