The Washington herald., 1914-09-13
A CORNER IN ANCESTORS,
BY FRANCES COwLES.

I follows: Gules a bend argent cottised
or. That is a red shield upon which is
a silver band running from the upper
left hand corner to the lower right hand
corner. with two smaller gold bands on
each side of the large one.
To c. NJ. who asks for information
about the TichenOr and I.unn family:
The name Lunn IS a corruption Of the
English name Lund. which is derived
from a place so called in Lancashire.
York. Apparently all the Lunds and
Lunns are deCended from a family orig
inally located in that town. The coat
of-arms for the Lunds is as follows:
Per cheyron or and gules. three lions
PEASANT, cOunterC harEed.
The name Tichenor. or Ticknor. as ii
is sometimes spelled. is derived from
the Dutch word teekenaar, meaning
designer. But the American family OF
the name do not appear to have come
from Holland. but from England, where
the Dutch family had been established
for some time. The first name in this
country was William. born in Kent.
England. who settled in Scituate. Mass.
in 1856 and married Hannah Stockbridge.
He was a sergeant in King Philips
War. and left several children from
whom many OF those bearing the name
now are descended.
To r. L. S, who asks for information
about the Denny and Middletown fami-
lies, with coats-of-arms Of the fami-
lies. The coat-of-arms of the Earl OF
Denny. created 1870, is as follows: Gules
satire argent. between twelve crosses
pattee Of. All OF the Denny coa,s-of-
arms are about the same as this OF the
earldom OF the family. which became ex-
tinct in 1860. There is one Denny family
America which claims descent
Edmund Denny. Of Combs, England. He
was born in Combs about 1910 and came
to Leicester, Mass. He was a worsted
weaver by trade and a man OF consider
able property, His son Daniel came to
America and settled in Leicester, Mass.
about IT'S The Southern family Of the
name of Denny are said to have gone
from Pennsylvania into Virginia about
the end OF the eighteenth century.
The coat-of-arms for the Southern
Middleton family Is as follows: Ar
gent fretty sable on a canton PEI chew
ron or and sable. a unicorns head erased
per chevron gules and or. the horn sable.
Henry Middletown. gentleman. of Twick-
enham. England. had three children. Ar
thur, Edward. and Hester. Arthur came
to the Carolinas and had large property
in the colonies, which was inherited by
his nephew. Arthur, son OF Edward.
This Arthur had been born in 1881 and be-
came royal governor OF Carolina in IT'S.
He had three sons. William, born in ITO,
who returned to England and had a son.
William, who was created baronet in
1904; Henry. and Thomas The descen-
dants Of these sons. who remained in
this country have full right to bear the
coat-of-arms described above
To B. NJ. G., who asks for information
about the Bermiss family in America.
The name Bermiss, or Bermes, as it is
sometimes spelled, is OF pure English orr
gin. The only coat-of-arms given for this
family is as follows: Quarterly or and
sable. The first man Of the name in this
country was Joseph Bermiss, who was
born in England in 1919. He was a man
Of much ability and high position in
Watertown, Mass. He had many descen-
dants, among whom there were seven
graduates from Harvard College before
the year 1886
To 1. L. H, who asks for information
about the Hillman family:
The name Of Hillman is of English
origin The coat Of arms is as follows:
Gules on bend cotised, or, three roses
Of the field seeded Of the second, barbed
vert. Crest, a demi eagle, wings dis
played. holding in the beak a rose gules
stalked and leaved vert. There were set
SSIS VI TIC name Oh human In Penn
sylvania and New Jersey as early as
IT'S, but cannot discover who was the
founder OF the family in this country.
A Francis Hillman, Of Salem. n. j., of
Quaker parentage, was a noted horse
man, and It was said of him that sol
greatly did he esteem his horses that he
fed them wheat. while he gave his fam
lily Indian meal An Oliver HiIlman. whol
was born in Philadelphia in IFS went to
Springfield. Ill, where he had many chill
dren.
To T. T. who asks for information
about the wilmington family:
The Wilmington family apparently came
from England in colonial days. but II
have been unable to discover the name
of the first settler. The only English
family OF the name is seated in Gulchethl
Hall. County Lancaster. and bears the
following coat of arms: Gules a fess
chequy or an ASSURE. Crest. q lions head