England; Lancashire; Peerage of Great Britain by marriage
Gascoyne-Cecil of Salisbury — Frances Mary Gascoyne and the heiress transmission
- Family / house
- Gascoyne; Gascoyne-Cecil; Cecil of Salisbury; Childwall Hall; Hatfield
- Family / cadet branch
- Sole-heiress Childwall Hall branch of Gascoyne, transmitted into the Salisbury line by marriage
- Armiger / bearer
- Frances Mary Gascoyne, Marchioness of Salisbury
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- Childwall memorial record; peerage and genealogical sources
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- 1821
- Until / superseded
- 1839
- Historical period
- George IV and early Victorian periods
- Blazon
- Paternal arms associated with the Childwall Gascoyne family: Argent, on a pale Sable a conger's head erased and erect Or, charged with an ermine spot. In her married armorial context, the Gascoyne arms were quartered with the Salisbury Cecil arms by her husband under the 1821 Royal Licence.
- Plain-English description
- Frances inherited the Childwall Gascoyne identity and estates. Her paternal family arms show a gold upright conger's head on a black stripe over silver, marked with an ermine spot; after her marriage those arms entered the Salisbury marquessate's quartered achievement.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Sable; Or
- Charges / ordinaries
- conger's head erased and erect Or; ermine spot
- Exterior ornaments
- No separate personal grant or independent achievement for Frances Mary Gascoyne has been located. Her heraldic importance is as heiress and source of the Gascoyne quarter and surname transmission.
- Difference / variant
- Female heiress transmission. The arms are not an agnatic cadet branch of Cecil; they are the maternal/heiress source subsequently marshalled by the Salisbury male line.
- Source reference
- Childwall church and memorial study
- Linked historical person
- Frances Mary Gascoyne
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Bamber Gascoyne of Childwall Hall
- Mother
- Sarah Bridget Frances Price
- Spouse(s)
- James Brownlow William Cecil, later 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
- Children / next generation
- James Emilius William Evelyn Gascoyne-Cecil; Lady Mildred Arabella Charlotte Gascoyne-Cecil; Lord Arthur George Villiers Gascoyne-Cecil; Lady Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoyne-Cecil; Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury; Lord Eustace Brownlow Henry Gascoyne-Cecil
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
Frances should be represented as the source of an heiress-derived armorial transmission, not as the holder of a separately granted personal coat unless a specific women's heraldic record is later located.