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Armorial Bearings
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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.
Some Heraldic Storey / Storys
"Coats of Arms" or "Armorial Bearings"
The Law of Arms states that any Coat of Arms can be used only by the grantee or a direct male
descendant of the grantee of those arms, or of a person who was recognised as being entitled to those arms.
In certain circumstances the arms can pass through a female heiress to her
descendants to be "quartered" with their paternal coat.
About 36 different Story/Storey families have been found using armorial
bearings. I have divided these arms into:
1) A shield divided into six with three herons or storks
2) A purple Lion rampant with two tails. or a forked tail. on a white shield.
3) Miscellaneous Arms
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or =gold (or yellow) / argent = sliver (or white) / azure = blue / gules = red / sable = black
purpure = purple / vert = green / proper = in its natural colours.
dexter = right / sinister = left [ these refer to the side of the holder of the shield,
standing behind it, so dexter means your left side as you look at the shield)
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Some crests (the ornament attached to the top of a helmet) have been noted, but crests are not as
important as shields, and this is not a complete record of them.
The Reivers
Before the union of the crowns of England and Scotland the inhabitants on both sides of the border
were very difficult to control, since lawbreakers, mainly rustlers or "rievers" could flee across the
border. One of these clans was The Storeys, who mostly lived on the English side. Their badge or
symbol was a heron. When, later, any of the Storeys needed an heraldic devise they placed 3 herons
on a black and white shield. Eventually this was accepted at the Heraldic Visitations as the official
arms of several Storey/Story branches living in these northern border counties.
It should be pointed out that there are no storks or cranes native to The Britain or Ireland, but herons are
common, and are often called "cranes" by non-experts. In drawing them in heraldry it is not usual
to differentiate between them. Similarly we have few snakes and there is no difference in drawing an
eel or a snake in the bird's mouth in the Crest. Of course we have no native unicorns or dragons either!
Type 1 3 Storks, Cranes or Herons
These shields are all described as - "per fesse of a colour & a metal with a pale and three storks
counter-changed". This means the shield is divided across the middle into say black above and white below, then
a vertical broad band is added down the centre with the opposite colours (white on top of the black
and black on the white). Then if the 3 birds are on the black spaces they are white, and vice versa;
this is described as "counter-changed".
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