England: Lancashire and Essex
Bamber of Childwall — maternal Bamber arms preserved in the Gascoyne achievement
- Family / house
- Bamber; Gascoyne; Childwall Hall; Bifrons; Greene; Lancashire; Essex
- Family / cadet branch
- Bamber-connected Gascoyne branch of Childwall Hall
- Armiger / bearer
- Bamber Gascoyne of Bifrons and Childwall, M.P., and the Childwall Hall descendants
- Entity type
- family
- Social rank / class
- armigerous_gentry
- Heraldic authority
- Childwall church memorial survey; local historical and estate sources
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- 1757
- Until / superseded
- 1824
- Historical period
- Georgian period
- Blazon
- Argent, a pheon Sable, on a chief Sable a lion passant Argent.
- Plain-English description
- A silver shield bears a black pheon, with a black chief carrying a silver lion passant. In the Childwall Gascoyne achievement these arms occupy the second and third quarters, demonstrating that the Bamber identity was retained heraldically rather than merely as a personal name.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Sable
- Charges / ordinaries
- pheon; chief; lion passant
- Difference / variant
- This is the distinct base Bamber design identified in the Childwall memorial. It should not be conflated with the Gascoyne conger or demi-lucy arms.
- Source reference
- Childwall memorial survey
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Sir Crisp Gascoyne of Bifrons
- Mother
- Margaret Bamber or Anne Gascoyne, with the maternal Bamber identification requiring reconciliation between sources
- Spouse(s)
- Mary Greene (1729–1799)
- Children / next generation
- Bamber Gascoyne the younger (born 26 November 1757); Isaac Gascoyne (c.1770–1841)
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The evidence supports recording Bamber as a genuine quarter in the Childwall achievement. The heraldic presence is stronger than a mere surname association because the quarter is explicitly labelled Bamber in the memorial survey.