The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30

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 IS of the family have served with dis tinction in the navy.
 Another interesting Nicholson family is descended from Samue' Nicholson, who, with his wife and five children. left their home in the parish of Orston, Not tinghamshire, England, and sailed with John Fenwick and company in the ship Griffin. They settled in Salem, N J., having landed in this country on the shores of the Delaware bay. Fsnwlck had purchased large tract of land in west New Jersey, from Lord Berkeley and Fenwick sold it to members of the Society of Friends. Of this Samuel Nich- olson bought some 200 acres thus being ranged among the most influential land owners of the Fenwick settlement.
 M. R. D. writes thus: Could you please tell me something about the Deer ing family, and whether they have crest of coat-of- -arms?"
 The Deering coat-of-arms which, by the way, is borne by the family of the name settled at Worgreat County Dor. set, England is blazoned thus: Vert, three bucks heads argent, attred, or. The Deering family of County Kent, England bears coat-of-arms similar, with the difference that, whereas the first shows a vert, or green background with silver, or argent. bucks heads, the second Is red, or gules shield, with gold heads. One of the first of the name in this country was Roger Deering of Kit tery, Me, who lived in the first part of the seventeenth century. He was con- nected by marriage with Sir William Pep perell. Many of his descendants have lived in Boston, Mass,
 A reader asks for something of the Talbott family and what is their coat of arms?'
 Although no one can tell just how the surname Talbott originated it is fact conceded by genealogists that mo family in England is more connected with the history of that country than this noble race, and few more highly allied' The original seat of the family was in the Marches of Wales, but since then they have become possessed of country homes in various parts of England The Earls of Shrewsbury, since extinct, were of this family and bore the following coat of-arms: Gules on a lion rampant, or, a border, engr, of the last. The crest: On a chapeau gules, turned up, ermine, a lion statant, the tail extended or. Sup porters, two talbots, or. The motto is "Prest d'accomplir.' The use of the tal- bots, or dogs. as a part of the heraldic emblem is simply play upon words and should not be taken as an indication of the original of the name
 Mrs. H. B. H. writes for information about the Heron and Mann families. That the Heron or Heron family was early distinguished in Scotland is every where apparent to those who read old Scotch ballads and all who have read ognize the lines:
 ''Sir Hugh the Heron bold,
 Baron of Twisell and Ford,
 And captain of the Hold
 Many are the conjectures as to the origin of the name, but it seems most likely that the first of the name derived it from little town in Rouen called Le Heron which was probably the cradle of the race
 Probably the first of the name in this country was the one who settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, about 1734
 It is of interest to those of the Mann family in this country to know that Lord Cornwallis, about whom we have all read III our SCnOOl QdyS, was OA tHc family of Mann. The family is a very distinguished one in England, and it is said that the first to bear it was native of Maine, France, just as the first to bear the name Breton, was native of Breton. Another theory has 1t that the first of the name came from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, and stf1l another that the surname was de- rived from personal name, Man, once popular in England
 One of the first, if not the first, of the name in this country was Richard Mann, of Mann Hill, Scituate, Mass, who was born in England and died by drowning in Scituate in 1855. Still an other early settler of the name was Thomas Mann probably born in Eng land. who served in the Indian wars in 1676. His home was Renboth. Mass
 Mrs R. B. M. asks for something about the Rathbone family.
 The first of the name in this coun- try was Richard. who was born in 1574 By his wife, Marion .Whipple, he had four children, William, Joseph, Thomas and John. the oldest three of whom had no children. John. who was born in England in 1610 married and had a son, John. born in 1884. He married Margaret Dodge. A story is told that in 1859 when the French pillagec Block Island. the home of this John Rathbone the French made special effort to capture John. Their reason was that they thought he would have considerable money. They seized upon one man whom they took for Rath- bone. and because he refused to give up the money they tied him and searched him. In the meantime Rath- bone had escaped With the money and was never again molested by the French. He had five sons and one daughter-Thomas, John, Sarah, Will liam, Joseph and Samuel. They all mar ried and had large families, in that way spreading the name of Rathbone through many states in the union. There is good reason to believe that these Rathbones were related to the Col. John Rathbone who was promi- nent in the parliamentary army of Eng land soon after the coming of the Rathbones to this country in the seventeenth century,
 The coat of arms of the family is blazoned thus: Argent, three doves, proper. Crest. a dove with an olive | branch n al