The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-02
A CORNER IN ANCESTORS
Ny FRANCES CowLns.

The Maurans Are or French Origin. The Borunes Have an nlustrfous l Records Shaclxleford of English Origin-Ancient Ellis Coat of Arms. Tut, Fortune and Lipscomb Fami- l lies Mentioned-Johnson and John stone Are of Different Origin-Grib- ble Coat of Arms Not to Be Found. | Copyright, 1916, by Mcclure Newspa- per Syndicate.)
 Although the first Maurans to come to this country were natives of Villa
 franca, Italy, their original home was
 France and it is supposed that they
 migrated from France to Italy about 145O The name is one of the many ones name is first found in Toulouse and
 Languedoc, France, and it is said that the first man to bear it was one Maurin who flourished as early as S32. | The coat of arms here illustrated belongs to the American family, but
 since it is of French origin it is not 1 to be found in English armories. It | is derived from the armorial device of the French family of Maurand, which l is described briefly as follows: "Echi- quete dor ct d'azure." Sometimes the colors are argent and gules instead of 1 or and azure. That is, the checks shown in the coat of arms are some times gold and blue and sometimes silver and red.
 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS l E. T. B. asks for information of the
 Bourne family, especially the family Ito which Senator Bourne belongs. l I find that Jonathan Bourne, IT,, 1 United States senator from Oregon, was born in New Bedford, Mass. He i left college to go to sea. was ship | wrecked and picked up off the coast of Mormosa- He was taken to Portland,
 Ore, and so well did he like the land of his accidental adoption that he never returned to his natvie home and \ has since served his adopted state with high credit. It seems highly probable that he is member of the
 New England family of the name A Richard Bourne of English birth was one of the first settlers of Sand wich, Mass. He came to that settle ment and acted as minister there and
 
 Indians at Marshpee by John Eliot. His soh, Shearjashub, and later his grandson, Ezra. succeeded him as min 1 ister to the Indians at Marshpee. His l great-great-grandson was the first representative to Congress from Rhode l Island. from 1790 to 1796 To this branch belong many of the name in the west. notably in Cleveland. | Another early settler of the name io1, an admiral in the British navy He was born in London i'll 1911 and was the son Of Robert Bourne, Mapping | shipwright He settled in Charlestown and later Dorchester, Mass. So far as 1 I car find he left no descendants in 1 this country and died in England whither he had returned to spend his declining days.
 1 The name is derived from certain 1 parishes fin Durham, Lincoln, Hants. and Sussex in England. The word
 means either running stream or sometimes ''boundary line" There are 12 coats of arms, but the most usual one and that borne by the London l family of the name, is thus described Azure. two lions passant in pale arr 1 eeat Mottos borne by members of the family are "Haec omnia transeunt,''
 "Esse quae videri," and "semper wig ilans."
 l E. N. S. asks for information of the
 Shackelford family.
 I Apparently this is one of the names
 which, though of British origin, Is now known only in America. At any rate, I find no record of such spell | ing in any books on British nomen- clature.
 l However, the family was established in Virginia at an early date. A Col. Lyme Sha ackelford and his wife. Elizabeth Talia- | ferro. of the distinguished Virginia fam- | ily of the name, were living in King and Queen county. Virginia. and was a 1 repr esentative of that county in the Vir- ginia house of delegates. Later he re- moved to Kentucky. He had nine chill l in the Mississippi legislature; Benjamin, who was prominent citizen of Louisville; George, who made his home in Hannibal. Mo-. and Richard, who established dis tinguished family in St. Louis. Mo. H. H. F. asks for information of the Fortune family.
 There is a place of the name in Had dingtonshire. England. and it Is from that place that the small family derives the name.
 Mrs. c. p. F. asks for the Ellis crest There are more than forty-six coats of arms given for the Ellis family in Eng land, and am at loss to know which one applies especially to the American l family. I am giving you the one that seems most ancient--that borne by the Lords Seabord and the Barons de Wal l den, both of whom were members of | the English family of Ellis. It is de- II >r&o