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From: "LiverpoolLady" <>
Subject: Re: [DEV] Quartered Shield at St Giles in the Wood
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:29:25 -0000
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Lesley Ü
You my find these links helpful
 http://www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/110370/1.html
http://two_rivers_team.worthyofpraise.org/St%20Giles%20in%20the%20Wood.htm
http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/StGilesintheWood/

-----Original Message-----
From: devon
William Cooke wrote:
> I'm hoping someone with a knowledge of heraldry can help me with the
> following.
>
> Carved above the door to the north transept of the parish church of St
> Giles is a carving of quartered shield. The arms are definately not
> those of the ROLLE family, who were the primary landowners at St Giles
> in the Wood from the 15th to the 19th century. One possibility is that
> the arms are those of Mark George Kerr TREFUSIS, son of the 17th Baron
> CLINTON, who inherited the ROLLE estates upon the death of John ROLLE in
> 1842. The upper left quarter appears does appear to be the TREFUSIS arms
> but I cannot identify the other three quarters.




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