Wednesday, September 15, 2010

BUTTON IDENTIFICATION SOLVED?

  In the previous post I requested assistance in identifying the above metal button found whilst metal-detecting in Purse Caundle.
  I have recently received an email from Howard Seymour offering the following information:
"The Lion Rampant is part of the heraldry coat of arms belonging to the Semour Family upon which Jane Seymour also had the bird rising, noted as the Phoenix. The word on the back of the button ANOYE is in fact a village in [south-west] France." The word GENT may infer that it belonged to a gentleman from that village. Mr Seymour had ancestors living in other parishes in the vicinity during the 17th century.
  A Seymer Family in these blogs is found married into the Hannam and Hoskyns Families who both were separately owners of the Purse Caundle manor house in the 16th/17th centuries, with the Seymer arms represented on memorial stones in the church's chapel - see APPENDICES C1C and C1D.
  My thanks to Howard Seymour, but any further information would be appreciated.