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Lot Essay
We are grateful to Andrew Grey for supplying the following information relatating to the present lot:
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Argent a chevron between three cocks close gules in chief three spearheads argent imbrued gules (Williams of Gwernyfed); impaling: Azure three goats passant or (Stansfield for Gray)
Crest: A cock close gules
Mantling: Gules and argent
Motto: Deus haec otia fecit
For John Williams of Boons near Edenbridge KEN, who married 30 Mar 1840 at St Giles Camberwell SRY Mary Stansfeld only daughter of Robert Alexander Gray of Camberwell and died 1886 aged 86; she died 1892
(Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, 1883 and 1917 eds; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints International Genealogical Index)
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Argent a chevron between three cocks close gules in chief three spearheads argent imbrued gules (Williams of Gwernyfed); impaling: Azure a cross moline argent (Seager)
Esquire's helm
Crest: A cock close gules
Mantling: Gules and argent
Motto: Deus haec otia fecit
For John Williams of Boons Hall, near Edenbridge KEN, father of 11.35, who married Mary elder daughter of John Seager of Greenwich and died 1831
(Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, 1860 ed., which notes a claim - unsupported by the heraldry - of a collateral relationship to the Williams-Wynn baronets of Wynnstay)
A) Dexter background black
Argent a chevron between three cocks close gules in chief three spearheads argent imbrued gules (Williams of Gwernyfed); impaling: Azure three goats passant or (Stansfield for Gray)
Crest: A cock close gules
Mantling: Gules and argent
Motto: Deus haec otia fecit
For John Williams of Boons near Edenbridge KEN, who married 30 Mar 1840 at St Giles Camberwell SRY Mary Stansfeld only daughter of Robert Alexander Gray of Camberwell and died 1886 aged 86; she died 1892
(Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, 1883 and 1917 eds; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints International Genealogical Index)
B) Dexter background black
Argent a chevron between three cocks close gules in chief three spearheads argent imbrued gules (Williams of Gwernyfed); impaling: Azure a cross moline argent (Seager)
Esquire's helm
Crest: A cock close gules
Mantling: Gules and argent
Motto: Deus haec otia fecit
For John Williams of Boons Hall, near Edenbridge KEN, father of 11.35, who married Mary elder daughter of John Seager of Greenwich and died 1831
(Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, 1860 ed., which notes a claim - unsupported by the heraldry - of a collateral relationship to the Williams-Wynn baronets of Wynnstay)