Brooke Heraldry at Colebrooke

A few years ago the Clogher Historical Society visited Colebrooke House and Church near Brookeborough in Co Fermanagh.

The website associated with the house is at:

http://colebrooke.info/

their Gallery of photographs is at:

http://colebrooke.info/gallery/

The stained-glass window at Colebrooke House has a multiquartered coat of arms that also features in the church as shown below.

Colebrooke House

Sir Arthur Brinsley Brooke died in 1854 aged 58. He was married to Julia Henrietta Anson, daughter of Sir George Anson (1769-49). Sir George was son of George Anson (1731-89). This latter George was born George Adams in 1731 and legally changed his surname to Anson after inheriting the Shugborough estate from his cousin. He was son of Sambrooke Adams and Janetta Anson. Sambrooke Adams appears to have been of Obadiah Adams and Frances Adams who was Frances Sambrooke, daughter and heiress of Francis Sambrooke of Sambrooke.

George Sambrook sold land to Obadiah Adams, grandson of Abdias Adams (1605-95) and Ellen Jervis of Cheswardine, now Cheswardine. In 1702 Sambrook Manor was built by Obadiah and Frances Adams, Frances was daughter and heiress of Francis Sambrook of Sambrook. Abdias Adams (1605-95) married Ellen Jervis who had two sons Robert and John. Richard Adams (1567-1641) of Edgmond, was the father of John, Abdias, and Francis. 

Janetta Anson was daughter of William Anson and Isabella Carrier.

The following shows the Adams, Sambrooke, Anson and Carrier Connections.

The table does not include:
Frances Sambrooke wife of Obadiah Adams
and
Isabella Carrier wife of William Anson

The Heraldry associated with the four families is:

three bends for Anson

three cats for Adams

three salmon for Sambrooke

three spears and bend for Carrier

The quartered arms of Anson, Adams, Sambrooke and Carrier.

          The impaled arms of Brooke and Anson on the Monument to Sir Arthur Brinsley Brooke (d. 1858) at Colebtooke, Co Fermanagh.

The Brooke arms are quartered with Cole
The Anson arms are quartered with Adams, Sambrooke and Carrier as shown above in colour.

Sir Arthur Brinsley Brooke was son of Sir Henry Brooke and Harriet, daughter of Hon John Butler, their impaled are on the next monument. Sir Henry was descended from Major Thomas Brooke (d. 1696) and Catherine Cole, daughter of Sir John Cole M.P. for Co Fermanagh.

The Brooke Flag at Colebrooke Church

The Brooke crest on Colebrooke House.

Broc is the Irish for badger.

The monument to Sir Arthur Brinsley Brooke (d. 1858)

Heraldry at Slane Castle (Mount Charles)

The heraldry on both gateways at Slane Castle likely dates from after 1794, the year of the marriage of Henry Conyngham (son of Francis Pierpoint Burton and grandson of Francis Burton and Mary Conyngham) and Elizabeth Denison (daughter of Joseph Denison and Elizabeth Butler).

      http://thepeerage.com/p2584.htm

The Arms on the sign at the Conyngham Arms Hotel by Niamh O'Broin.

[I would like to thank Niamh O'Broin for permission to use the image.]

The arms displayed some years ago on the sign at The Conyngham Arms encapsulate this heraldry associated with the Conyngham, Burton, Dennison and Butler families. (The sign is no longer on view.)

The first roundle contains the quartered arms of Conyngham and Burton and are surrounded by 'Quis Separabit MDCCLXXXIII (1783)'

The Order of Saint Patrick is a dormant British order of chivalry associated with Ireland. It  was created in 1783 by George III at the request of the Lord-Lieutenant Lord Buckingham.

The second roundle contains the 'quartered arms of Conygham and Burton' impaled with the 'quartered arms of Denison and Butler'. Also included on the sign are the Conyngham crest, supporters and motto.  

The gateway to Slane castle as you approach the village from the south after crossing the river.

The impaled arms of Conyngham and Denison along with the Conyngham supporters and motto. Also present is a coronet for a Marquess and the symbol for the Order of St Patrick along with a harp.
 

The gateway to Slane Castle on the approach to Slane from Navan. 

Above the archway are the arms of Conyngham.

The impaled arms of Croft and Conyngham on the gravestone of Antoinette Conyngham Croft (1923-59) at Slane Church of Ireland.