Members' Roll of Arms

Canadian Heraldic Authority, Grant of 15 October, 2006. Volume V, Page 64

Artist: R. Gordon M. Macpherson
The basic pattern is that of Irish arms for Neills/O’Neills, differenced here by the embattled line, which alludes to Mr. Neill’s profession as a Chartered Town Planner. The armoured arm is a crest commonly associated with Neills/O’Neills; here it holds a scroll closed instead of a sword, representing a town plan. The mound of earth is a reference to Moatabower, a motte originally of neolithic origin situated at Mount Neill, County Carlow, Ireland. The motto means ‘A place for everything and everything in its place’ and refers to the principle of land use zoning as a further reference to Mr. Neill’s career in urban planning.
Badge: On a plate a ship enflamed proper flagged Azure set on a base barry wavy Azure and Argent, all encircled by an annulus Gules charged in base with a mullet and inscribed LOCUS OMN. ET OMN. IN LOCO SUO in letters Argent.
The ship, a type known as a Dutch flute, refers to the three fire-ships in the arms of the Town of Wexford, Ireland, as recorded in the visitation of 1618, and which appear on a Wexford trade token of Mr. Neill’s ancestor Constantine Neale, a burgess of that town. The design also alludes to the maritime service of several members of Mr. Neill’s family, and to his interest in coins and medals. The abbreviated version of Mr. Neill’s motto around the badge alludes to a common practice in inscribing coins and medals.
Flag: A standard, the Arms in hoist, the fly per fess Gules and Argent charged with the Crest and the Badge.

Assumed in Brazil.

Arms assumed and used since university graduation in 2009 as an arts teacher.

The College of Arms, 1 August 1991.

The College of Arms, 10 March 2009.

On 27 May 1629 in the fifth regnal year of Charles I, a Patent of Arms and Crest was granted to John Nourse of Chilling Place in Oxfordshire, son of John Nourse of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, by William Segar, Garter Principal King of Arms.

A letter, dated 9 May 1984, from Elizabeth Dowman, Assistant to the York Herald of Arms, written to the member’s cousin Reba Nourse Coombs, verifies the grant of arms, as well as the right of the family to use it. The member’s branch of the family descends from the second son of John Nourse of Milton Keynes, Bucks; its arms are differenced with a crescent.
Artwork by Robert Scott Nourse.

Chief Herald of Ireland, Volume Aa, Folio 19, November 24, 2009

Artist: Philip Mackey, Herald Painter to the Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland
Badge: In front of a cross crosslet Or a boar’s head erased Azure langued Gules tusked Argent

Chief Herald of Ireland

Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie (CBG), The Hague, Netherlands, 23th April 1986, Reg.Nr. 535.

Artist: Lothar Müller-Westphal

The College of Arms, 19th July 2013. The agent was Mr T Duke (Chester Herald).

For a badge: A Cross bottony Azure surmounted by a Leopard’s Face Or.
The artist who painted the letters patent was Mr Robert John Parsons MBE.
The text was scrivened by the Clerk of the Records, Mr Keith Alexander Evans MVO.

The College of Arms, 15 March 1982.