The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08


 families. Will B. NJ. L. and A D. NJ kindly send me. their addresses. All requests should be accompanied by full name and address, not for publication hut so that communications from other readers may be forwarded without de- lay.
 To Mrs. E. J. K. who asks for coats of arms for the Hutchison and Fisk Gel families: a
 The American Hutchison family bearing coat of arms Is that to which Governor Hutchinson of Boston be- longed. This coat of arms is found on the governors tomb in the Church Hill Burying ground. Boston. It is de- scribed as follows: Per Dale gules and azure semee of cross crosslets or, a lion rampant argent. The crest to go with this coat of arms is: Out of ducal coronet cockatrice vert, combed, peaked and wattled@ gules. The mottos are Gerit Crucek fortiter and Nihil hu- | hanialienum
 Tho American family bearing a coat of arms is descended from Robert Fiske who married Sybil Gold. They are kin to the FislSes of Straghaugh, of Lax field County Suffolk, Eng. The coat of arms Is described thus: Chequey ar gent and gules in fess sable, five (sometimes three) mullets voided of the third or. The crest Is: On the point of l 8 triangle sable an estoile or The motto is: Macte Virtue sic fur ad as- l tra.
 To E. E.. who asks for information about the Cobleigh family: The English families bearing the ! names Cooley. Colegh. Cobleigh. Coro- leche and Cobligh all bear the same coat of arms. and are therefore ap- parently of similar origin This coat of arms is as follows: Gyronny or eight, sable and gules. on a bend en- grailed three ogresses between two swans argent.
 | In this country the name is found at an early date in New Hampshire, l where, in Chesterfield, Eleazer Cob leigh lived as early as 17s6. There he erected the first grstmill of that place. His son. Elenzer, married Ia batha Farr and their children were | blessed with the following usual names: i Zolney, Patty. Elon and Adon. This 1 family of Cobleighs may have come from Braintree. Mass.
 l To l.. T. R.. who asks for sources of information about the Thayer fam | fly:
 | In order to get complete record | of the Thayer families of America 1t i would be necessary to consult the va rious genealogies of that family that have been compiled. The most recent 1 is written by Frank A. Bates. The title is Some Descendants of Gideon 1 Tha<sr." It was published in Brain tree. Mass, in 1908. Another book of ! avlue is by c. E. Pierce. entitled: De | scendants of Rufus and Pamela Thay- CT" It was published by A. Sutcliffe company. Pautawket. Mass. 1896. 1 To Mrs. S. c. Cassell. who asks for 1 information about the Ia Masney fam l fly:
 I have been unable to find record of l a family of the name La Masney either 1 In English or French records. The l na oaf In n Q e n g. nuy, which is located in Hainaut Bel gium The motto of this family is | "JAime Ia Blanche" literally, 1T love the white.'
 To c. A E. J., who asks for infor- nation about the family of Jesse: The surname is of pure English origin and was derived from the personal name Jesse. The coat of arms for the English family is as follows: Argent three demf seadogs passant in pale sa-
 ble. Crest: A,lion sejant supporting an escutcheon gules
 | To NJ. L. O.cwho asks to know the parentage of Mary Talmadge who mar ried David Osborn. She was born January 20, 175s. M. L. O. also asks for the coat of arms of the Talmadge I family and whether the family was or iginally Scotch.
 1 I have been unable to find the pa rentage of Mary Talmadge. Can any of | our readers supply the information? l The original of the name Talmadge l is uncertain. There Is one authority who puts forward the theory that it s combined from the words tai, meaning country, and maca. meaning companion Another. authority has 1t that the word means tolling of the bell, but this is unlikely The name has at various l times and places been spelled Talmage l Talmash, Talmacke, Tollemachs and
 Tollemach. It may be- that the fam l fly owe their origin to Saxon lord named Tollmag. who lived in the sixth century in England. The theory is that 1 in this country, the family was estab- l lished by three English brothers, Will l liam. who settled in Boston; Thomas. l who settled in Lynn and Easthampton. and Robert. who settled in New Haven. | As to the spelling in general the fam ilies of Easthampton and New Jersey | spell it Talmage and those of Connecti- l cut and New York Talmadge. although there are some exceptions to this rule. To W. ". who asks for information
 about Jacob Weaver, revolutionary
 soldier:
 Weaver, who was born in'1779. who was
 minister in Livingston, N. Y., who preached in Dutch and English. The record states that his father served In Ithe revolution, thought what the fath-
 CTS name was does not appear.
 Another man or the name WAS HeHry y
 Weaver who was born in Switzerland.
 and came with his brothers, George and Jacob to Earl township, Pennsyl- vania, in 1723-24. Henry was one of the first settlers of Lancaster county,
 Pennsy ylvania, and owned 25,000 acres
 there. Whether or not the brother Ja-
 cob. had a son or not cannot tell He
 could hardly have served in the revo-
 lution himself.
 A Benjamin Weaver of Swanzey. or
 Swansea. Mass. had the following chil-
 dren: Benjamin, born In f753, who was
 master mariner.sand a captain, Sam
 uel. Parker. Anna. Ruth, Eunice and
 Elizabeth. Samuel commanded q ves-
 sel that traded between New Enslant
 and the West Indies. He had d son Benjamin. who was colonel in thf
 revolution.
 should be glad to forward any in- ] formation about Jacob Weaver to W. W Miss Cowles regrets that owing tc , the great number of inquiries that , she receives from readers of the col umn she is not able to answer them 1T
 this column for many weeks after theil
 receipt. No inquiries are destroyed
 however. and she hopes eventually tc answer them all.
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