Marris Crests/Coat of Arms

[normanlink]

Hi, Does anyone have any information about the Marris Crest or Coat of Arms?
Family history goes back to William 1 (1066).
Thanks for any help.

[KGarrad]

There is no such thing as a family crest or coat-of-arms!

Arms are granted to an individual, and his direct-line descendants may use the arms.

Unless you can prove direct descent from the person who was awarded the arms, then they aren't yours.

See http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.htm

[GrahamSimons]

There is no-one of that name in my Armorial Families (1902).

To continue to rain on your parade, may I recommend the book My Ancestors Came With The Conqueror, Anthony J Camp, Society of Genealogists 1990, ISBN 0946789029? I was encouraged to read this by a genealogy of one of my ancestors published in some editions of Burke's Landed Gentry, where the descent was claimed into the 10th century?

[davidbappleton]

Burke's General Armory lists one Marris, in Barton, county York, bearing:

Gules a saltire engrailed argent

with the crest, A castle proper.

Of course, whether this Marris is related to the family you are asking about is a matter for genealogical research.

David