General Notes

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2  SOUR S332582
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4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004


[daveanthes.FTW]

Davenport, of Davenport, co. Chester, descended from Ormus de Davenport, temp. Conquest.  The direct male line became extinct in 1577, when Davenport passed, in marriage, with Elizabeth, elder dau. and co-heir of John Davenport, Esq., to Robert Davies, Esq., of Manley.  The blazon -- argent, a chevron between three crosses crosslet fitchée sable; the crest -- a man's head, couped at the shoulders and side head, ppr. with a rope round the neck, or.  This singular crest is supposed to have been borne on the helmets of the Master Sergeants in their perambulations through the Peke Hills and the forests of Leek and Macclesfield, to the terror of the numerous gangs of banditti which infested in former times those wild districts.  There is in the possession of the Capesthorne family a long and very ancient roll, containing the names of the master robbers who were taken and beheaded in the times of Koran, Roger, and Thomas de Davenport, and of their companions.  [Sir Bernard Burke, The General Armory, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1884]


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