Ireland; County Armagh, County Londonderry and County Meath
Alexander of Forkhill — collateral branch through Anne Jackson, heiress of Coleraine
- Family / house
- Alexander; Jackson of Coleraine; Jackson of Forkhill; Knox; Stuart; Caledon
- Family / cadet branch
- Alexander of Forkhill, descended through Anne Jackson, daughter and heiress of Richard Jackson of Coleraine
- Armiger / bearer
- Henry Alexander of Forkhill, D.L.
- Entity type
- cadet_branch
- Social rank / class
- armigerous_gentry
- Heraldic authority
- Ulster King of Arms; National Library of Ireland manuscript catalogue
- Record basis
- confirmation
- Issued / first recorded
- 27 September 1872
- Historical period
- Nineteenth-century Irish landed gentry
- Grant / record reference
- Confirmation and exemplification recorded in Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. G, pp. 255-256
- Blazon
- Per pale Argent and Sable, a chevron between in chief an annulet and in base a crescent all counterchanged. Crest: An arm in armour embowed, the hand grasping a sword Proper, on the elbow an annulet Sable. Motto: PER MARE PER TERRAS.
- Plain-English description
- A shield divided vertically into silver and black, bearing a chevron whose tincture follows the division, with a ring above and a crescent below, also counterchanged. The crest is an armoured arm holding a sword, marked with a black annulet at the elbow.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Sable
- Charges / ordinaries
- Chevron; Annulet; Crescent; Armoured arm; Sword
- Crest
- An arm in armour embowed, the hand grasping a sword Proper, on the elbow an annulet Sable.
- Motto
- PER MARE PER TERRAS
- Difference / variant
- A collateral Alexander branch, not a Jackson armorial variant. Its relevance is genealogical: Anne Jackson, daughter of Richard Jackson of Coleraine, married Nathaniel Alexander, Bishop of Meath; their son Henry Alexander was associated with Forkhill.
- Source reference
- National Library of Ireland, Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. G
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Nathaniel Alexander, Bishop of Meath
- Mother
- Anne Jackson, daughter and heiress of Richard Jackson of Coleraine
- Spouse(s)
- Louisa Juliana Knox, married 1839
- Children / next generation
- Granville Henry Jackson Alexander; Henry Nathaniel Alexander
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
This is a high-value collateral seed because it links the Coleraine Jackson inheritance to the Alexander family and to a later Forkhill territorial designation without confusing the Alexander arms with the Jackson coat.