England: Lancashire, Essex and London
Gascoyne of Childwall Hall — memorial form with Bamber maternal quarters
- Family / house
- Gascoyne; Gascoyne of Bifrons; Bamber; Greene; Childwall Hall; Childwall; Lancashire; Barking; Essex
- Family / cadet branch
- Childwall Hall branch descended from Sir Crisp Gascoyne of Bifrons through Bamber Gascoyne and Mary Greene
- Armiger / bearer
- Mary Greene, wife of Bamber Gascoyne the elder, and the Childwall Hall Gascoyne line
- Entity type
- family
- Social rank / class
- landed_gentry
- Heraldic authority
- Lancashire and Cheshire Historic Society; Childwall church memorial survey
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- 1757
- Until / superseded
- 1799
- Historical period
- Georgian period
- Blazon
- Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent, on a pale Sable a demi-lucy erect couped Or, for Gascoyne; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, a pheon Sable, on a chief of the second a lion passant of the first, for Bamber. An escutcheon of pretence, Gules, six fleurs-de-lys, 3, 2 and 1, Argent, for the assumed arms of Greene or Ireland.
- Plain-English description
- The shield combines the Gascoyne arms in the first and fourth quarters with the Bamber arms in the second and third. The Bamber quarters are therefore visibly preserved as a maternal or heiress-derived connection through Mary Greene's marriage to Bamber Gascoyne. A small central shield represents the assumed Greene or Ireland arms attributed to Mary Greene's paternal inheritance.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Sable; Or; Gules
- Charges / ordinaries
- pale; demi-lucy; pheon; lion passant; fleurs-de-lys
- Exterior ornaments
- The Childwall memorial was recorded beneath an esquire's helm with mantling Gules doubled Argent and a motto ribbon bearing RAISON POUR GUIDE.
- Difference / variant
- This is a distinct Childwall memorial wording of the Gascoyne arms: demi-lucy erect couped rather than the conger's-head wording used in later or alternative records. The Bamber quarters are explicitly identified as Argent, a pheon Sable, on a chief Sable a lion passant Argent.
- Source reference
- Stewart-Brown, Notes on Childwall, Childwall church memorial survey
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Isaac Greene of Childwall and associated Lancashire estates
- Mother
- Mary Aspinwall, daughter and heiress of Edward Aspinwall of Hale
- Spouse(s)
- Bamber Gascoyne of Bifrons and Childwall, M.P. (1725–1791)
- Children / next generation
- Bamber Gascoyne the younger (born 26 November 1757); Isaac Gascoyne (c.1770–1841)
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The memorial survey is particularly valuable because it preserves the otherwise easily missed Bamber quarter. It also shows that the Childwall evidence uses a demi-lucy formulation for Gascoyne, which should be retained as a historic textual variant rather than silently normalised.