Coat of arms / family crest

[lundy06032013]

thank you for the help so far I am finding out a lot of facts, however I am new to all of this and was wondering if someone could also give me an explanation to what the picture actually is, Is it a coat of arms/ family crest? Is it for one family or a merge of several? What does it represent?

Regards

[KGarrad]

My guess would be:

Sometimes, when a man marries a woman who in her own right bears arms, the 2 coats-of-arms are played side-by-side - it's called impalement, a form of marshalling.
See: http://karlwilcox.com/parker/?page_id=2117
and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartering_(heraldry)

Sometimes, a man impales his arms of office (e.g. a bishop, dean of a college, etc) with his own arms.

Turner Calvert was around in the mid 16th Century, when the rules of Heraldry weren't so stringent?!

Certainly the Calvert arms are in positions 1 and 8 - the places of honour.

Probably, if you work out Turner's lineage, it might become clearer?

[josey]

Very useful links KGarrad, thanks. How would the 3 boars heads be described? It looks like they are 'couped' but how do you describe the horizontal bar?

In the Ipswich Journal 18 April 1767, Turner Calvert mentions the 'Crest of my Arms'.

[KGarrad]

The horizontal bar is a fess.

|The three heads are indeed couped, but I don't think they are boars heads? No tusks!
In heraldry, boars are almost always tusked.

The arms with the 3 stars, is a fess dancetty, between 3 mullets.

[Skoosh]

Looks like the story of the three bears! 

Skoosh.

[Little Nell]

I think the couped heads are of greyhounds.

Nell

[KGarrad]

They could be greyhounds - but I still can't find the arms!
The engraver has used hatching to denote the tinctures (or colours).

So, the 4th arms will be azure, a fess or between 3 <??> couped.
(Blue shield, gold bar across the middle)


The 3rd arms are those of Scotland (or, a lion rampant gules). (Gold with a red lion rampant).

And the 7th arms will be sable, a fess dancetty argent, between three mullets of the same.
(Black shield, an indented bar, between 3 5-ponted stars all in white/silver)
And I can't find that coat-of-arms, either!

[lundy06032013]

is there a possibility that the coat of arms is a combination of several different ones I cant seem to find any looking the same as the picture I have acquired.
It has been passed down through generation with no real explanation except it was also attached to a picture of a house with no location.
What explanations could there be to the different sections.

[KGarrad]

I thought I had explained that in reply #11?