Rochford Family Crest, Coat of Arms and Name History

We have identified 8 coat of arms associated with the surname Rochford.  The English surname of Rochford has had long associations with  Ireland.  As the family were among the first English settlers in Ireland, they began arriving there shortly after the Anglo-Norman invasion (1169).  The name is local in nature and it’s origin being one of those names derived from the place where the original bearer lived or once held land. In this case, the name has sprung from two towns in England, Rochford in Co. Essex, and Rochford in Co. Hereford.  The source of the Essex town is derived from the existence of a ford on the river Roche.  One of the earliest records date to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries when a Waleram de Rocheford, from Rochford, Essex is recorded in the Feet of Fines of Nottinghamshire in 1198.

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Blazons & Genealogy Notes

1) (Stoke, co. Lciccstcr; Henry Rochford, Esq., of Stoke, temp. Henry V.; his dau. and heiress, Jane Rocukord, m. Henry Stanhope, Esq., whose granddau. and heiress m. Thomas Skiffington, Esq., of Skeffington, son and heir of Sir William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland, temp, Henry VIII. Visit. Leicester, 1619). Quarterly, or and gu. a border sa. bezantee.
2) Same Arms, within a border az. platée (another, the border sa. bezantée).
3) Ar. eleven barrulets az. and a chief indented gu.
4) Ar. a lion ramp. sa. crowned gu. (another, the lion ducally crowned or).
5) Az. a fess dancettée betw. three lions ramp. or.
6) Ar. a fess gu.
7) (Sir George Rochford, Knt., temp. King John; his dau. m. SirHenry Stanton, Knt., of Stanton, co. Nottingham. Visit. Notts, 1614). Quarterly, or and gu. on a border sa. eight annulets of the first.
8) Quarterly, or and gu. Crest—A cock gu.