"#4 Coat of Arms, Fairfield, County Lanark, Scotland, 1869"
"Argent, a fess wreathed
gules and vert between 2 mullets of the second in chief
and a dolphin hautriant
azure in base of the third for difference."
Argent= white or silver
Gules= red
Vert= green
Azure=blue
Fess= Band borne in the center of the shield
mullet= star of five points
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"ELDER Coat of Arms" -- 2 stars and Dolphin with figure like
the letter S (backwards).
From: Coat of Arms Store, 7607 N. WALL, Spokane, Wa. 99208
Clicking on Surname Index, picture of crest:
at
http://www.4crests.com/elder-family-crest-coat-arms.html
For the description, they wrote at the end:
" The arms were registered at Fairfield, County Lanark in 1869."
Research Haurient and Torqued:
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Haurient&offset=0
HAURIENT
In heraldry, haurient is said of a depiction of a fish which is
in pale, with the head in chief as if rising for air.
Picture of Torqued Dolphin
In heraldry, the term torqued describes a dolphin haurient, which
is twisted to form a figure like the letter S.
(In Pale = arranged vertically)
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ELDER Coat of Arms - in House of Names: (2 stars - Dolphin
in "S" shape)
at
http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c/qx/Elder-coat-arms.htm
"Origin Displayed: Scottish
Spelling variations of this family name include: Elder, Elders,
Eldar, MacNoravaich and others.
First found in Edinburghshire
the present day Scottish Council Area of Midlothian in Southeastern Scotland,
which as a former county, used to encompass the city of Edinburgh,
where they were seated from very ancient times,
some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke
William at Hastings in 1066 A.D..."
***
ELDER as Sept of Clan Mackintosh motto: Touch not the cat
bot a glove"
at
http://www.clanroots.co.uk/index_files/MacKintosh_Clan.htm
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"Steamship ELDER" family of Glasgow, had FAIRFIELD YARD in
1868:
David ELDER's son, Alexander ELDER, living in LANCASHIRE in 1901:
More notes
at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nancyelder/ed/ElderDempsterBook.htm
“In 1868 John Dempster went into partnership with Alexander Elder,
brother of the eminent Glasgow shipbuilder, John, to act as
Liverpool agents of the British and African Steam Navigation Company
of Glasgow. The company's vessels were constructed in John Elder's
Fairfield Yard, in Glasgow."
*****
PAXTANG Crest?
"A chevron in Heraldy means: protection; Builders or others who
have accomplished some work of faithful."
Elder Family Newsletter article says:
"Center [illustration] came from the book
"Genealogy and historical record of the Anderson and Elder families"
[of the Richlands of Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
who settled there in 1783] by John Calvin Elder
Publisher: New Alexandria, Pa. : The Author, 1938.
[in Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
and Augustana College Sioux Falls, SD 57197]
For online history of PAXTANG PA group, see info about:
ANDERSON and ELDER families, including "JOHN CALVIN ELDER"
in History of Westmoreland Co PA,
Vol. III, compiled by John W. Jordan in 1906, pages 533-539.
Transcribed and posted by Donna Logan
at
http://www.familytrail.com/elder/records/PAwestmorelandco.html
"...John Calvin Elder and family also reside on the old homestead.
Thus we see from this history that his children are the sixth
generation of the same name that have lived in succession on this
farm. So one generation passes away and another comes."
...."Robert Elder, born 1679, in Scotland, emigrated to America
in
1730 and located in Paxtang township, then Lancaster, now Dauphin
county, Pennsylvania.."
***
References: Donna Logan's Membership List, Page 1, for EDGAR B.
ELDER
http://www.familytrail.com/elder/member1.html
96-Edgar B. Elder - John ELDER (Margaret McHENRY); Harrison Co, VA/WV
WorldConnect
by Gary L. Cottrill
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=glcottrill&id=I114
# ID: I114
# Name: John R. ELDER
# Sex: M
# Birth: 13 APR 1760 in Ireland
# Death: 27 APR 1857 in Booth's Creek, Taylor County, VA
# Burial: Middlesville Cem, Bridgeport, WV
Father: William ELDER b: 1730 in Earsdon by North Shields, Northumberland, England
Marriage 1 Margaret MCHENRY b: ABT 1765 in Ireland
* Married: ABT 1793 in New York
His Father: Thomas ELDER b: 1704 in Warkworth, Northumberland, England
His Father: Thomas ELDER b: 1683 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland,
England
ID: I118
Name: Thomas ELDER
Sex: M
Birth: 1683 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Note: christening: 18 Feb 1683; St. Nicholas Parish Rec & Noncomf.
His Father: Richard ELDER
Mother: Isable
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AllFamilyCrests
2 stars with moon at the bottom:
at
http://www.allfamilycrests.com/e/elder-family-crest-coat-of-arms.shtml
Same for IRISH CRESTS page with ELDER surname
at
http://www.irishsurnames.com/coatsofarms/gm.htm
"Irish surnames, Ireland family crests
Coat of arms from Ireland and Worldwide"
Elder
The name Elder in Ireland is usually of immigrant origin having
been brought
into the Province of Ulster by settlers from England, especially
during the seventeenth century.
The name means 'senior'. It is in Counties Derry and Donegal that
the
majority of descendants of this name can today be found.
*****
On Donna Logan's FamilyTrail webpages, she
posted some history of William ELDER of Maryland,
with a reference to origins in "Lancashire England."
at:
http://www.familytrail.com/elder/WilliamElderEmmitsburgMd/williamelder3.html
Has anyone researched LANCASHIRE ENGLAND for more ELDER names?
Wikipedia background info for Lancashire:
at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire
LANCASHIRE:
"...non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West
of England,
bounded to the west by the Irish Sea.
It takes its name from the city of Lancaster and is sometimes known
as the County of Lancaster.
Its county council is based in Preston, the county's administrative
capital.
Lancaster, however, is still considered to be the county town.
Commonly, Lancashire is referred to by the abbreviation Lancs,
originally used by the Royal Mail.
The population of the county is 1,449,700. People from the county
are known as Lancastrians.
Liverpool, Manchester....
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Reference:
"The encyclopaedia of heraldry or general armory of England, Scotland,
and Ireland
comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to
the present time "
with a supplement by John Burke; Bernard Burke, Sir
Type: Book; English
Publisher: [Chilmark] : S & N Genealogy Supplies, 2003.
Edition: 3rd ed | 4 Editions
ISBN: 1861506171 9781861506177
OCLC: 56963838
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Webpage for Rietstap's Armorial General
at
http://www.4crests.com/riarge.html
From: Coat of Arms and Family Crests Store:
..."In the future, it is our intention to add ALL the pages of
Rietstap's Armorial General. [apparently in French]
For now a few of the pages are shown below.
...J.B. Rietstap, Heraldic Authority, who compiled a complete registry
of all names and arms recorded and granted to them, from the earliest
to the present time from the colleges of arms, on the Continent,
and
some on the British Isles."
***
Google
Books
"An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families
in Great Britain and Ireland..."
By John Woody Papworth, et. al.
Published 1874 T. Richards
1125 pages
Original from Oxford University
Digitized Nov 5, 2007
Page 775:
"ELDER, Lord Provost of Edinburgh
"Arg. a fess wreathed of five pieces gul. and vert betw. three mullets
of the second."
Page 741:
ELDERSHAW, Scotland
Arg. a fess wreathed of five pieces gu. and vert in chief two elder
leaves of the third
and a crescent in base az."
Another version of ELDERSHAW:
Webpage picture:
http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/eldershaw-family-crest.htm
(2 yellow flower shapes , one in lower left and one in upper
right, with 3 green shapes from upper left to lower right)
The name Eldershaw has undergone many spelling variations, including
Aldersey, Eldersey, Aldersea, Eldersy and others.
First found in Chester, modernly known as Cheshire.
They are a family of great antiquity in that county, and held estates
at Aldersey and Spurstow from about the 11th century.
****
In ELDER Newsletter:
#3 "Mather Blazon of Arms" -- must be for MATHER, another
family's crest - "resent" must be "crescent".
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A GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN HERALDRY, by JAMES PARKER
FIRST PUBLISHED in 1894
http://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/Jpglossa.htm
and home:
http://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker
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