Booker Coat of Arms & Family Crest - Symbols, Bearers, History

Booker “Family Crest” or Coat of Arms - Family History & Surname
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1) Booker of Velindra House, co. Glamorgan, Wales - Thomas William Booker (1801-1858), industrialist, landowner, and Member of Parliament, son of Rev. Luke Booker (1762-1836), Vicar of Dudley and rector of Tedstone Delamere, poet and antiquary - He was adopted by his uncle, Richard Blakemore of Velindre House, and assumed the surname as an addition to his own - Or, an eagle displayed vert, ducally gorged of the first, beaked and membered gules within a bordure azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis gold. Crest: A demi eagle displayed. Motto: Ad coelum tendit.

2) Alternate blazon for Booker of Velindra - Per pale or and vert, an eagle displayed within a bordure charged with four roundels and as many fleur-de-lis all counterchanged.

3) Booker of London, and Woodhouse, co. Nottingham - John Boocher of London (fl. 1634), the son of Edmund Boocher, son of John Boocher, son of John Booker, all of Woodhouse, co. Nottinghamshire – had son had son Gervase Booker - Or, an eagle displayed vert, ducally gorged of the first, beaked and membered gules within a bordure azure charged with three (eight?) fleurs-de lis gold. Crest: A swan proper collared and lined azure.

4) granted to Josias Booker Esq. of Demerara, West Indies (1828-1881), Lieutenant-Colonel of the Demerara Militia, eldest son of Josias Booker of Poplargrove, near Liverpool (1793-1865) - Or, within a bordure azure charged with four fleurs-de-lis and four mullets alternately of the first an eagle displayed vert gorged with an annulet gold. Crest: On a mount vert a swan ppr. collared and lined and charged on the breast with a fleur-delis azure. Motto: Deo non fortuna.

5) Booker/Boocher of London - granted between 1585-1633 - Same arms, but with eight fleur-de-lis.

6) borne as an impalement by Thomas Cosby Esq. of Vicarstown, Queen’s Co, Ireland (b. 1742), in right of his wife, Frances Bowker (1743-1770), daughter of Samuel Bowker of Coulcreagh, co. Laois - Argent an eagle displayed vert crowned or, within a border azure charged with eight fleurs-de-lis of the third.