Name
Thatcher
6 coats of arms in 3 sources
Attestations: what are they?
Some arms carry an “Attested: in Renesse’s dictionary…” or “in … Ordinary” note. It points to a reference work, separate from the armorial that gives the blazon, where this name appears with these arms. It is independent corroboration: two books that agree are worth more than one.
Renesse, Dictionnaire des figures héraldiques (1894–1903): files families by charge (lion, cross…); it cites the family under the charges of its arms.
Papworth, Ordinary of British Armorials (1874) and Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms (Scotland, 1893): sort arms by their design and name who bears them.
Only sure matches are counted (same name in Renesse, a confirmed entry in Papworth). Each coat’s page lists every citation, with a link to the scanned printed page.
The parser reads these blazons the same way. Each source keeps its own text, shown here: a word the parser does not keep can tell them apart.
Read identically in 3 sources (4 coats of arms)
- Thatcher Bolton (American Armory) · US
- Thatcher Bolton (American Armory) · US
- Thatcher Burke (General Armory) · co. Essex
- Thatcher Rietstap · Boston — Attested : in Renesse’s dictionary (1 mention)
Compare the 4 texts
- Bolton (American Armory) [Gu] a cross moline arg on a chief [or] 3 grasshoppers ppr
- Bolton (American Armory) Gu a cross moline arg on a chief or 3 grasshoppers proper
- Burke (General Armory) Gules a cross moline argent on a chief or, three grasshoppers proper
- Rietstap De gueules à la croix ancrée d'argent; au chef d'or, chargé de trois sauterelles de sinople
Other coats of arms of the name
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Thatcher Burke (General Armory)
Gules on a cross moline argent a crescent, on a chief or, three birds volant azure
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Thatcher Burke (General Armory) · co. Sussex
Gules a cross moline argent on a chief of the last three grasshoppers azure
Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (2) · see the citations →