I found this image...
The chevron design represents the roof of a house and the importance of home and family. It is also supposed to represent protection and faithful service. Which I also feels appropriate for our family because of military service.
The gold is supposed to represent generosity. The blue, strength and loyalty.
The hedgehog, according to some, represents a provident provider. I feel that this suits our family well. We try to live joyfully within our means and be content with what we have. Dear husband finds it his main goal to avoid excessive debt and diligently saves and prepares for our future. Hopefully our efforts will prove to provide for ourselves and our families throughout the generations. We also hope to follow the holy families example and live modestly to serve and bless others.
The family motto, which is seen at the image to the right, is "Everywhere to remember one's own country." I am not entirely sure what this motto means. I can see it represent our family, as we move around a lot. No mater where we go, we will always be part of our country. On a more spiritual level, I can see it represent that we can go everywhere on this earth, but none of it will mater when we get to our heavenly home.
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ReplyDeleteHarris coat of arms is from www.4crests.com
ReplyDeletethis was bore by numerous grantees of various 🏴Harrises and in different forms, notably the Earls of Malmesbury, there is a Heriz spelling for this exact shield but this Harris shield's surname comes from la Herissiere in La Rochelle, Avranches🇫🇷 as a palacade of log spikes round a fort thus the 🦔 quills look, numerous possible 🇫🇷 relations of Herissier, Hericy, Herisse, etc...
ReplyDeletethe Harris origin apparently came to 🏴 as de Heris then de Heriz, descending to numerous families becoming Harris, some like Heriz-Smith keeping the old spelling, and one line in 🏴 as de Heriz, de Herries, Herries, and 🇺🇸Harris and 🏴Harries descending to Harris of Cousland --- 🏴Harris🏴 is also Welsh from either Harrys, Harry, Harries, Harri, numerous surname and given name orgins from a Harri / Harry or "Henry" but the 🇬🇧🏴🏴Harris🏴🏴🇬🇧 likely
is from de Heriz, from Hérisson ie 🦔 in French, my Harris is unknown, but I descend from Herries from Clan Maxwell and de Heriz of Wiverton from Britt or Basset
the 1st Baron Harris and relatives of the Serapingham family bore a similar version, honestly I can tell so much about this family, whilst I cant trace every hedgehog Harris's origins I can say they all likely descend from de Heriz and may be Cousins to all those le Herisse le Herice l'Hericy etc. french families whom also bore hedgehog heraldry, also Hersay is from Hersey, Hercey, Hercy, and Hericy🏴 and old blazons list
ReplyDelete🔸 3 🦔 pass. in pale ◾️ Hercy
🔸 3 🦔 pass. in pale 🔺Hercy
◽️ 3 🦔 pass. in pale ◾️Hercey
passant in pale means 3 🦔
vertically stacked one on top the other
this shield is related to
another without the ermine spots
on silver, and banstead surrey with
the plain gold chevron, and many others
and may descend from the old medieval
blue 3 gold hedgehogs arms
I think the oldest is ◽️ 3 🦔 ◾️
which came to Scotland
as Herries and later Harries
Geoffrey de Byrom de Glazebrook maybe adopted it from William de Heriz his Father in law and a knight, and later a Byrom adding a black chevron on it
and Claxton came from a line of de Heriz
and Claxson and Laxton is their relations
the Crixie Essex, Hatherup Gloucestershire and Radford Devon etc. are related but have not used hedgehog heraldry since their medieval de Heriz Ancestry
but I'd trace my tree
ReplyDeletesince the name is a common spelling
and the spelling of Welsh origin from Harri's Son, so tracing your tree will help, also this VA and Hatherup Gloucestershire and Crixie Essex Harrises are real families but many trees falsley add them as their Ancestry, as do sometimes adding Radford Devon, and these may be your Cousins at least if you are de Heriz descent, just a heads up these may not (or may) be your Ancestry, my 3 ggf is Henry Richard Harris of GA so his line comes from his Grandparents Benjamin Harris and Sarah Faith "Faithy" Smith but I cant trace past them, so I can't tell what it means for me to be a Harris exactly
books.google.com -- google images
ReplyDeleteebay, flickr, burke's heraldry books and heraldic family books mainly on archive.org and google books, coadb.com, Wikipedia, myfamilysilver, etc...
and Geneanet, Geni, Wikitree,
(myfamilysearch, ??)
(searchfamilyancestors ??)
ancestry, some of those are good
for ancestry search and the above for coat of arms research
also youtube and searching records and older books etc may help
I done so much research on this name
also Harres may be a sept
of Campbell
and MacKerries MacErras
MacPherries from Clan Ferguson
maybe from Mac Fergus
and FitzHarris is from
FitzHenry 🇮🇪 from a Henry FitzRoy
and his son ??? FitzHenry
and Henry was a illegit. son
of Henry I of England
but FitzHarris is a totally
different name then Harris
Harrison is from
Henry "Herry" de Hede
and Adam Heryson his son
from Sussex 🏴 of French
descent maybe Norman, de Hede or de Hawte / Haute and I and Beatle George and President William Henry Harrison and Pawn Stars come from this Harrison, my ?? ggm is a Harrison
my surname is 🇺🇸Harris🇺🇸
either from a 🏴 Harry / Harri
🏴de Heriz origin,
🏴Harris or 🏴Herries from 🏴de Heriz
thats what I think
newspaperarchive, newspapers.com
ReplyDeletefold3.com for military,
also the college of arms in🇬🇧
if you can afford it, which aint cheap
and they were who granted that arms to the numerous family members whom used that or a similar one, also Major Sir William Cornwallis Harris' ancestor Quarles Harris had this shield as his and made Quarles Harris port wine in 1680
also a few other shields use this motto
ReplyDeleteone from wiltshire with three crescants
in fess and per fess ?? blue black
three silver 🦔
and another one diagonally
with red and black
on a gold bend 3 ◾️🦔
etc...
the serapingham
and another gold shield
have "my prince and my country"
as their motto