----- Original Message ----- From: "Eve McLaughlin" <eve@varneys.demon.co.uk> To: <OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [OEL] question Doctors Commons > In message <004a01c46e29$129cd8c0$ba2c86d9@oemcomputer>, Chris Phillips > <cgp@medievalgenealogy.org.uk> writes > > > >Chris Bartlett wrote: > >> We have an interesting situation in my Meakin line where a James Meakin (d > >> 1842) > >> who was a prebendary of Worcester Cathedral applied for and was approved a > >> coat of arms. It was the only coat of arms ever given to a Meakin. > >> He never married and had no children but I found that whether > >> right to wrong some later relatives (around 1880) used his crest. > >> > >> A member of my generation decided he wanted to use the coat of arms and I > >> understand that this was possible but it was going to cost him quite > >> a lot of money so he decided not to go ahead. Does money bend the rules. > > > >I suppose that in that case a second grant would have been necessary, as the > >original grantee died unmarried. > > > > which confirms what was stated - the grant is to a person, and if the > person has no descendants, it does not then go to other members of his > family unless they pay for a new grant. > > -- > Eve McLaughlin > > Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians > Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society > > > ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE from list mode -- > Send the one word UNSUBSCRIBE to > OLD-ENGLISH-L-request@rootsweb.com >