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Armorial Bearings
Page Two

Coats of Arms used by branches of the Storey / Story Family in England & Ireland

submitted by Harold Storey

Additions and corrections welcome

"Armorial Bearings of the Storey/Story Family" content © Copyright 2002 Harold Storey.
Used by permission on the Story Genealogy Research Library.


Silver and black shield

1/1 EDWARD STORY, born in York, Bishop of Carlisle, later of Chichester, d. 1503 used this Coat of Arms, and the arms were recorded (as storks) at the Visitations of Sussex in 1530 and 1634,

1/1a At the Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530 by Thomas Tonge, Norroy King of Arms, recorded these as the Arms of STOREY. Associated with these Arms is usually found for Crest - A Heron sable, in its Beak a Snake gules. [Glover's Ordinary, C. 1550] [Surtees Soc., vol. xli]

1/1b STORY of Kirkland House, Wigton, descended from STORY of Cargo (near Carlisle) used these arms with for Crest : A whelk shell or, a stork standing thereon proper. Motto: "Fabula sed Vera". [Window in Wigton Church]

1/1c STORER of Coombe Court, Sy. and STOREY of Dorset used similar Arms with Crest - A Stork argent and beaked and legged gules (Storer); A Stork proper (Storey)
[ Bookplate of John STORER, MD, FRS (1747-1837)) [ Fairbairn's "Book of Crests"]
" proper" means "in its natural colours"

1/1d In 1697 JOHN STORY of Bingfield Hall, nr. Hexham, NBL. sold his estates in England and settled at Corick, Co. Tyrone. From him descend the families of STORY of Corick, STORY of Bingfield, and others. This family also produced a Bishop. They have all used these same Arms, and for Crest: A Heron with a Viper in its Mouth proper. Motto; "Fabula sed Vera". Burke's "Irish Family Record" gives incorrect arms for STORY of Corick : [ Kennedy's "Book of Arms"] [ Two bookplates - Joseph Story of Bingfield ]

1/1e EDWARD JOHN STORY of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and of Ilford, Essex, used these arms with, for Crest: A Stork's Head couped ppr.1 gorged with a mural crown or. Motto: "Dei gratia sum quod sum". This Crest is also associated with a Co. Durham family. [Fairbairn's "Book of Crests"]

1/1f Sir SAMUEL STOREY (1896-1978), created Baronet 1960, created Lord Buckton (Life Peerage) 1966., now represented by his son - Sir RICHARD STOREY, 2nd. Bt. He was granted these arms, and for Crest - In front of an escallop or a stork's head erased sable gorged with a mural crown gold. ["gorged" means the crown is around the neck.]

1/1g There is a memorial window in Bardsea Ch., Lancs. to ISAAC STOREY (1798-1841): The Storey arms impale the Patrickson arms of his wife's family. Crest : A stork proper. Isaac was the father of Sir Thomas and of Edward, below, and this window predates their Grants of Arms (See 1/2 & 1/2a below).

Silver and red shields



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