While we're all talking about Visitations and Coats-of-arms etc........let me throw out another question. From these wonderful charts that we all now have.......I see a whole long string of "Sirs"......for several generations in a row there for awhile. I understand that the title of "Sir" indicates that these fellows were all knights. Real for sure Knights!! Now I'd like to know what kind of ceremonies took place to make them Knights.....who took part.....where did they take place......(and did they serve tea and crumpets afterwards to celebrate the event!!) ;-)) And since there were more than one of them......can I assume there was more than one ceremony - over the generations when each one of them in turn was knighted? And what little I know about "arms," each one would have had his own design....similar perhaps to those of his father but with an additional quartering or ......something to indicate a difference. I think I have that right. So this explains the different Dutton arms we have....they belonged to one or another of those Sir Hughs etc.?? We dumb Americans only have a "Hollywood idea" of how one becomes a Knight. (Some of us even have to rely on Disney fantasy to imagine how "knighting" ceremonies were conducted! haha!) How far from reality do our ideas fall? It's so nice to have some of our U.K. cousins in this group......they're probably hooting and hollering over this one!! But....be kind, fellas........educate me gently on this one! ;-) Phyllis in Atlanta (just saw a full color illustration of the Bayeaux Tapestry.......wow! so I'm thinking about Knights today!)