The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-23

 b kinge arms. The one reproduced in sable. a lion rampant between three crosses on. Crest, a lions gamb or forleg, erased and erect sable, grasping cross itchee. Motto pamais sans esperance- never without hope. The cross fitchee that is sharpened at the base. points to a crusader ancestor, for this was the style of cross carried by pilgrims. and
 then set up when prayers were offered. I Answer to Correspondents
 To T. D.. who asks for origin of the
 name Duncan and description of coat-of arms
 Duncan as a last name comes from | the first name. It is one of the names used to describe the coloring of it's | bearer-for it. means brown head" IL
 is of Gaelic origin.
 The arms are described: Gules son chevron between two cinquefails in
 chief and a hunting horn in base oi 1 two buckle azure.
 To one of the Bancrofts who asks | for the origin of his family name. Bancroft may be a name derived
 from bane or baynes meaning, white.
 or fair and croft. an Anglo Saxon word for a small enclosed field | In some. parts of Scotland and the 1 Orkney and Shetland Isles crofters are small holders of land. The term Is now almost wholly confined to the 1 Western Highlands l Bancroft may mean a small, white l field as Ashcrift means close where
 ash trees grow. and Allcroft. or Hall croft, an enclosure by the hall Croft | is common termination of surnames, About the only variations of Bancroft
 are Bancraft and Bancreaft. l To T. P. L.,owho asks for as full ali account of the Lowell family in Amer 1 lea as possible also whether it is of
 noble origin.
 This family of Iovel is the baronial family of Castle Cary, County Somer-
 set. And although the connection be- l tween the various first settlers in America and the Barons Lovel of Castle
 Cary is not known, it is clear that most of the Lovels in America hied origi- nally from Somersetshire and that
 their ancestors and the ancestors of
 the barons may easily have been the 1 same. The family is widespread now | in England, and there are over 40 coat 1 of arms belonging to Lovells in the College of Heralds.
 1 In the year 1892 Rev. Joseph Hull of
 Somersetshire. England--the same l county where the hot tempered Lupus settled-resi gned his parish in Devon, l where he had preached for II years
 and with about 2o families set out. for l the new world
 | Just what the Rev Joseph Hull has tc
 do with the Lovells may not seem clear
 One of Mir Hull's friends. be it stated | was Robert Lovell and Robert, who was | 70, his wife. Elizabeth who confessed tC | 35 years, and their children, were of Dr. Hulls company. 4
 Altogether there were something over
 a hundred persons who set sail with their | leader and pastor. from Weymouth, Eng
 land on March 20, 1885.
 Hull and his band sailed 46 days be-
 fore they came to land. On May 1885 l they arrived at Boston. They rested there found settlement of their own. On July 2 they came to Wessaguscus. Mass. I which they decided upon as their abiding place. In honor of the last land they
 had touched in England, they called their
 new home Weymouth.
 l Robert Lowell was farmer, man in l good circumstances. Before very long | he had made a place for himself and l his family in the new world. His children, all of whom he brought | from England. were Ann. Zacheus, John, and the 1-year-old twins Ellen and l James.
 Alexander Lowell was another first set tier. He was born in England in 1619, l and died at Medf1eld, Mass. in 1709 He
 was one of the first settlers there, and a signer of the Medfield compact He was also a selectman. The Indians burned his house when they attacked Medfeld under King Philip. He married first, Lydia Albee. and then Lydia Leland. l Alexander's grandson, Jonathan was assessor and town treasurer of Holden. Mass He married Mary Cheney Their grandson was Captain Joseph of the Wor- cester cavalry company, who in 1915 mar ried Persis BigelQw.
 | There were manyother Lovels through out New England. Enos Lowell was the second male child born in Rockingham, Vt. He married Mary Grout, and lived at l Grafton. He had three sons, Don, James. and Michael. Don and James were cloth dressers and carried on a successful busi- 1 ness.
 1 Another early New England Lowell was sAldis, third son of Elijah and Abigail. who was born at Rockingham, Vt He
 worked on a farm until he was 22 years | old but after that studied law. His wife
 was Martha Willard of Lancaster. Mass.
 the granddaughter of Henry Haskell of l Revolutionary fame.
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