(last updated - 08 January 2004)
Transcribed by Esralin Casquejo Amadeo.
...Acton of Aldenham, co. Salop, England
ARMS:..Gules (red), two lions passant Argent (silver), between nine crosses crosslet fitchy Or (gold).
CREST:..Within a wreath Argent (silver) and Gules (red), a human leg and thigh in armour Proper (natural color), garnished Or (gold), couped and dropping blood.
...Acton of Gatacre Park, co. Salop, England
NOTE:..The second branch of the Actons of Aldenham.
Arms and Crest as ACTON of Aldenham.
...Acton of Acton Scott, co. Salop, England
Arms and Crest as ACTON of Aldenham.
...Acton of Dalberg - Baron Acton
ARMS:..Quarterly,1st and 4th, Gules (red) semy of cross crosslets fitchy Or (gold), two lions passant in pale Argent (silver), for ACTON; 2nd and 3rd, quarterly, 1st and 4th, Azure (blue) six fleurs-de-lis three two and one Argent (silver); a chief dancettee of the last; 2nd and 3rd, Or (gold), a cross patonce Gules (red), over all an escutcheon of the first thereon a tower of the second and chief dancettee of the last.
SUPPORTERS:..Two lions guardant Proper (natural color) each gorged with a chain Or (gold), and charged with a cross patonce Gules (red).
CREST:..A human leg and thigh in armour couped and dropping blood all Proper (natural color) embellished Or (gold).
ARMS:..Gules (red), a fess Ermine, in chief and in base a lion passant Argent (silver), between two crosses crosslet Or (gold).
CREST:..A demi lion rampant guardant Argent (silver), grasping a spear Or (gold), enfiled with a boar's head Sable (black), couped Gules (red).
ARMS:..Argent (silver), a chevron Gules (red).
...Acton of Leicestershire, England
ARMS:..Quarterly, per fess indented Argent (silver) and Azure (blue)..
ARMS:..Quarterly, per fess indented Argent (silver) and Gules (red), in the first quarter a Cornish chough Sable (black).
ARMS:..Argent (silver), a fess within a border engrailed Ermine.
...Acton of Shropshire, England
ARMS:..Quarterly, per fess indented Argent (silver) and Gules (red), in the first a bordure Sable (black).
...Acton of Warwickshire, England
ARMS:..Gules (red), a fess within a bordure Ermine.
...Acton of Worcestershire, England
NOTE:..The Sutton branch terminated with an heiress, Joice Acton, married to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, but its male representation vested in WILLIAM JOSEPH ACTON, of Wolverton, Esq.
ARMS:..Gules (red), a fess Ermine, within a bordure engrailed of the second (i.e., Ermine).
CREST:..An arm in armour embowed Proper (natural color), holding in the hand a sword Argent (silver), hilt Or (gold), thereon a boar's head couped Sable (black), the neck distilling blood.
MOTTO:..VAILLANCE AVANCE L'HOMME...(Valour advances the man).
...Acton of Bockleton, co. Worcester, England
Arms as the preceding with a mullet for difference.
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...Acton
of Acton Hall, Ombersley
NOTE:..The Visitation of 1634 has the chevron Or (gold).
ARMS:..Gules (red), a chevron between three cinquefoils Argent (silver).
...Acton of Worcester, England
ARMS:..Gules (red), a fess and bordure both engrailed Ermine, in chief a chaplet Proper (natural color).
NOTE:..Granted to SIR ROBERT ACTON, of Worcestershire, Knt., and to his nephew, Robert, "who at ye siege of Bulleyn toke Mons. Honingcourt prisoner".
ARMS:..Gules (red), a fess and bordure engrailed Ermine, on a canton Or (gold), a tree eradicated of the field (i.e., red).
CREST:..An arm embowed in armour Sable (black), garnished Or (gold), in the gauntlet a sword thereon impaled a boar's head erased of the first (i.e., balck), armed of the second (i.e., gold).
ARMS:..Gules (red), a bordure engrailed Ermine.
ARMS:..Per fess indented Argent (silver) and Azure (blue).
CREST:..A pine tree leaved Vert (green), fructed Or (gold).
ARMS:..Quarterly, per fess indented Argent (silver) and Gules (red), on a bend Azure (blue), three crosses formy fitchy Or (gold).
ARMS:..Gules (red), a cross Or (gold), within a bordure engrailed Ermine.
ARMS:..Or (gold), three bars Vair.
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..Acton of Cheshire,
England
NOTE:..Two distinct male branches of Hellesley.
ARMS:..Azure (blue), a chevron between three mullets Or (gold).
ANOTHER ARMS:..Azure (blue), three mullets Or (gold).
ARMS:..Argent (silver), three piles wavy Gules (red).
...Acton of Gloucester, England
ARMS:..Gyronny of eight Argent (silver) and Gules (red).
Acton
ARMS:..Gyronny of eight Argent (silver) and Gules (red), in the second quarter a cross paty Argent (silver), charged with five escallops Gules (red).
Acton
ARMS:..Gules (red), crusily of crosses crosslet fitchy Or (gold), two lions passant Argent (silver).
Acton
ARMS:..Quarterly, Argent (silver) and Gules (red), in chief an annulet counterchanged, on a bend Azure (blue), three crosses paty fitchy Or (gold).
Acwell
ARMS:..Paly of six Argent (silver) and Azure (blue), on a chief Gules (red), a leopard passant Or (gold).
ARMS:..Paly of six Argent (silver) and Azure (blue), a chief Sable (black).
Acworth of Suffolk, England
ARMS:..Argent (silver), a griffin segreant per fess Vert (green) and Azure (blue), armed Or (gold).
...Acworth of The Hook, co. Herts, England
ARMS:..Ermine, on a chief indented Gules (red), three coronets Or (gold).
MOTTO:..VINCIT QUI PATITUR...(He conquers who endures)..
...Adair of Kinhilt, co. Wigton, Scotland
ARMS:..Per bend Or (gold) and Sable (black), three dexter hands appaumy couped and erect Gules (red).
CREST:..A man's head couped and bloody Proper (natural color).
MOTTO:..LOYAL AU MORT.
...Adair of Heatherton Park, co. Somerset, England
Arms, Crest and Motto as the preceding.
ARMS:..Per bend Or (gold) and Argent (silver), three dexter hands couped and erect Gules (red), quartering SHAFTO.
CREST:..A man's head affronty couped at the neck Proper (natural color).
SUPPORTERS:..Dexter a knight-banneret armed all Proper (natural color), holding banneret of family arms displayed; sinister, an Irish chief armed all Proper (natural color).
MOTTO:..LOYAL AU MORT.
ARMS:..Argent (silver), a lion rampant Azure (blue), between three dexter hands appaumy erected and couped Gules (red).
CREST:..A man's head affronty couped Proper (natural color), distilling drops of blood and fixed on the point of a sword erected in pale, also Proper (natural color), hilted and pommeled Or (gold).
MOTTOES:..ARTE ET MARTE...(By art and force); and FORTITUDINE...(With fortitude).
Adair of Loughanmore, co. Antrim
Arms, Crest and Mottoes as the preceding.
...Adam of Blair Adam, co. Kinross, Scotland - 1815
ARMS:..Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent (silver), a mullet Azure (blue), pierced of the field (i.e., silver), between three cross crosslets fitchy Gules (red); 2nd and 3rd, Argent (silver), three arrows Gules (red), the midmost paleways the other two saltireways, points downwards banded together Vert (green), accompanied with six trefoils slipped of the last (i.e., green), two in chief two in fess and two in base, for LITTLEJOHN.
CREST:..A cross crosslet fitchy Gules (red), surmounted of a sword in saltire Proper (natural color).
MOTTO:..CRUX MIHI GRATA QUIES...(The cross gives me welcome rest).
...Adam of Whiteslaid, co. Selkirk, Scotland - 1731
ARMS:..Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent (silver), three passion crosses Gules (red); 2nd and 3rd., Or (gold), a burning hill Azure (blue), in chief three ravens wings expanded Proper (natural color), a bordure of the second (i.e., blue), charge with eight passion crosses of the first (i.e., gold).
CREST:..A passion cross Or (gold), charged with a man's heart Proper (natural color).
MOTTO:..IN CRUCE SALUS...(Salvation from the cross).
...Adam of Walden, co. Essex, England
NOTE:..Assigned by Camden, Clarenceux to Thomas Adam, Esq., 30 September 1614.
ARMS:..Vert (green), on a cross Or (gold), an estoile Sable (black).
CREST:..A talbot passant Azure (blue), bezanty collared Argent (silver).
Adam of London, England
ARMS:..Gules (red), on a bend Or (gold), three leopards' heads Vert (green).
...Adam of Lincolnshire, England
ARMS:..Sable (black), three bars Argent (silver), in chief three mullets of the last (i.e., silver).
...Adam of Christchurch, co. Hants, England
ARMS:..Argent (silver), a crescent between three crosses crosslet fitchy Gules (red).
CREST:..A crescent as in the arms.
ARMS:..Azure (blue), a ray of the sun issuing out of the dexter corner bendways Proper (natural color).
NOTE:..Lord ap Adam temp. Edward I.
ARMS:..Argent (silver), on a cross Gules (red), five mullets Or (gold).
ARMS:..Gules (red), five estoiles in cross (-).
ARMS:..Ermine, on a cross Gules (red), five mullets Or (gold).
...Adam of London, England - 1590
ARMS:..Argent (silver), on a cross Gules (red), five estoiles Or (gold).
...Adams of London, England - 1598.
ARMS:..Argent (silver), on a cross Gules (red), five mullets Or (gold), quartering SQUIRE, &c.
ANOTHER ARMS:..Argent (silver), on a cross Gules (red), five estoiles Or (gold), quartering SQUIRE, &c.
CREST:..Out of a ducal coronet Or (gold), a demi lion affronty Argent (silver).
ANOTHER CREST:..A lion saliant Or (gold).
...Adams of Paterchurch, co. Pembroke, Wales - 1422
ARMS:..Sable (black), a martlet Argent (silver).
ANOTHER ARMS:..Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Sable (black), two martlets Argent (silver); 2nd, Sable (black), five martlets in saltire Argent (silver); 3rd, Sable (black), a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed Or (gold).
NOTE:..See LEWIS DWNN'S Visitation of Wales, A.D. 1591.
...Adams of Holyland and Loveston, both co. Pembroke, Wales
NOTE:..Descended from Adams of Paterchurch.
ARMS:..Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent (silver), on a cross Gules (red), five mullets Or (gold).; 2nd and 3rd, Sable (black), a martlet Argent (silver).
CREST:..A martlet Argent (silver).
MOTTO:..CERTIOR IN COELO DOMUS.
...Adams of Drummer Grange, Hants; Thorpe, Surrey; Chastleton, Oxon, England
NOTE:..Descended from Adams of Loveston.
ARMS:..Or (gold), on a cross between four martlets Sable (black), five mullets of the field (i.e., gold).
CREST:..A martlet Sable (black), holding in the beak a mullet Or (gold).
MOTTO:..CRUCE DUCE.
...Adams of London, England - 1682
NOTE:..From Broseley, Salop, England.
ARMS:..Quarterly, 1st and 4th Sable (black), a martlet Argent (silver); 2nd, quarterly, Argent (silver) and Sable (black), on a cross Gules (red), five mullets Or (gold); 3rd, per pale Azure (blue) and Sable (black), three fleurs-de-lis Or (gold), over all a mullet for difference.
CREST:..A martlet Argent (silver).
...Adams of Middleton Hall, co. Carmarthen, Wales
ARMS:..Argent (silver), on a cross Gules (red), five mullets Or (gold).
CREST:..Out of a ducal coronet Or (gold), a demi lion affronty Gules (red).
MOTTO:..ASPIRE, PERSEVERE, AND INDULGE NOT.
...Adams of Anstey, co. Warwick, England
NOTE:..Formerly of Northamptonshire, now represented by HENRY CADWALLADER ADAMS, of Anstey Hall, Esq.
ARMS:..Vert (green), on a cross Or (gold), an estoile Sable (black).
CREST:..A talbot passant Azure (blue), bezanty collared Argent (silver).
MOTTO:..SUB CRUCE VERITAS.
ARMS:..Vert (green), a cross Or (gold).
CREST:..A griffin's head between two wings endorsed Vert (green), charged on the breast with a cross Or (gold).
ARMS:..Vert (green), on a cross Or (gold), a mullet Gules (red).
ARMS:..Argent (silver), on a cross Gules (red), a mullet Or (gold).
...Adams of Longdon, Salop, England - 1584, 1623 & 1663
ARMS:..Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Ermine, three cats passant Azure (blue); 2nd and 3rd, per pale Argent (silver) and Gules (red), a chevron between three bees counterchanged, for MASCOTT.
...Adams, alias Tasker, of London, England
NOTE:..Descended from Donington, Salop, England.
ARMS:..Ermine, three cats passant Azure (blue), quartering MASCOTT, TASKER, &c.
CREST (A.D. 1584):..Issuing out of a ducal coronet a boar's head erect Or (gold).
CREST (Altered in 1590):..A boar's head Argent (silver), couped Gules (red).
Transcribed by Esralin Casquejo Amadeo.