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Variations Last name: Clarke of Dunham,Clarke of Rupertswood
Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
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Clarke
Variations Last name: Clarke of Dunham,Clarke of Rupertswood
Ancient and noble Northern America family, of clear and ancestral virtue, that has worldwide spread over the centuries. This family is originally from England where already it flourished nobly in all its branches. But it went far beyond national borders, finding nobility also in Ireland, France, Australia and United States. As we learn from the fundamental heraldic work of Edmund Lodge "The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage", this family, originally known as Woodchurch, took its surname from the lands of Woodchurch, in Kent, which it held at the time of the Conquest. Clarke Woodchurch, esquire, son of Sir Simon Woodchurch and Susan Clarke, daughter and heir of Henry Clarke, esquire, inherited his mother's estates and assumed the surname of Clarke. His descendant, Simon Clarke, esquire, a considerable sufferer in the cause of Charles I, was created a Baronet on May 1st, 1617. Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, of Dunham Lodge, ...
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BlazonClarke
Variations Last name: Clarke of Dunham,Clarke of Rupertswood
1. Coat of arms of family: Clarke
Language of the text: Français
Argent, on a bend coticed gules three swans of the first between as many anulets sable. Crest: a mount vert, thereon a lark, wings elevated or, in the beak an ear of wheat proper, the dexter claw resting on an anulet as in the arms.
Coat of arms of family Clarke of Dunham Lodge and Norfolk (Baronet, 30 sept. 1831). Sources: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap"; "The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage and Baronetage" by E. Lodge, London 1859.
Gules; three swords argent, hilts and pomels or, per pale in fesse on a chief gules semy of stars argent.
Coat of arms of family Clarke dukes of Feltre (Paris) counts of Hunebourg and dukes of Feltre, 19 dec. 1809. Source: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée - Tome I A-K".
D'or, à la bande denchée d'azur ch. d'une étoile d'argent et deux besants du champ. Devise OMNIA NOBIS PROSPERA
Blason de la famille Clarke en Bretagne orig. d'Irlande. Source: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée - Tome I A-K".
D'or, à deux fasces d'azur acc. de quatre coquilles de gueules 3 rangées en chef et 1 en pointe flanqué en rond d'azur. Cimier un bras armé et gantelé au naturel tenant une flèche d'or empennée d'argent en barre la pointe en bas et trois coquilles d'or rangées sur le bourlet devant ledit bras. Devise SIGNUM QUAERENS IN VELLERE.
Blason de la famille Clarke de Rupertswood en Victoria (Australie) (Baronet, 29 déc. 1882). Source: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap".
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