(last updated on February 11, 2001)
MENELL, MENILE, MENNELL, MENYLL and MEYNELL
There are 11 entries for the above surnames in Burke's "General Armory", pp. 678 & 682.
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...PIMBLEY'S
DICTIONARY OF HERALDRY....
...A
GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN HERALDRY by JAMES PARKER (1st pub. in
1894)
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BLAZON:..Vairy Argent (silver) and Sable (black), with a label Gules (red).
CREST:..N/A.
NOTE:..Shield # 519 in Cooke's Ordinary.
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...Mennell of Malton, co. York
BLAZON:..Azure (blue), three bars gemel and a chief Or (gold), over all a bend Gules (red).
CREST:..N/A.
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...Mennell
BLAZON:..Paly of six Gules (red) and Or (gold), on a bend Sable (black), three horseshoes Argent (silver).
CREST:..N/A.
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...Menyll
BLAZON:..Paly of six Gules (red) and Or (gold), on a bend Sable (black), three horseshoes of the second (i.e., gold).
CREST:..N/A.
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BLAZON:..Vairy Argent (silver) and Sable (black).
CREST:..N/A.
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...Meynell of Noth-Kilvington, co. York, England
NOTE:..Descended from Hugh de Menell, of Hilton, living in 1203, second son of Walter de Mainill, represented by Meynell, of North Kilvington, and the Fryerage, near Yarm...Visitation of York 1665.
BLAZON:..Azure (blue), three bars gemel and a chief Or (gold).
CREST:..A savag'es head Proper (natural color), couped at the shoulders and wreathe round the temples Or (gold) and Azure (blue).
MOTTO:..Deus non reliquit memorian humilium...(God hath not forgotten the humble).
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...Meynell of Bradley, co. Derby, England
NOTE:..Descended from Francis Meynell, Sheriff and Alderman of London, who purchased the Manor of Bradley and d. 1666; his son, Godfrey Meynell, Esq., of Bradley, High Sheriff co. Derby, 1681, was father of Hugo Meynell, Esq., of Bradley, High Sheriff of the co. 1758, and M.P. for Lichfield, whose grandson, Hugo Charles Irvine Meynell, Esq., of Bradley, and Hoar Cross, co. Stafford, was Sheriff of co. Derby, 1826.
BLAZON:..Azure (blue), three bars gemel and a chief Or (gold).
CREST:..A savag'es head Proper (natural color), couped at the shoulders and wreathe round the temples Or (gold) and Azure (blue).
MOTTO:..Deus non reliquit memorian humilium...(God hath not forgotten the humble).
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...Meynell
of Langley, co. Derby, England
BLAZON:..Vairy Argent (silver) and Sable (black).
CREST:..A horse's head erased Argent (silver).
MOTTO:..Virtute vici...(I have conquered by virtue).
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...Meynell-Ingram of Hoar Cross Hall, co. Stafford, England
BLAZON:..Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Ermine, on a fess Gules (red), three escallops Or (gold), for Ingram; 2nd and 3rd, Vairy Argent (silver) and Sable (black), for Meynell.
CRESTS:..1st, A cock Or (gold), for Ingram; 2nd a horse's head erased Argent (silver).
MOTTO:..Virtute vici...(I have conquered by virtue).
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...Meynell or Menell of cos. Cambridge,
Cronwall and Norfolk, England
BLAZON:..Vairy Argent (silver) and Sable (black).
CREST:..N/A.
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...Meynell or Menell of co. York, England
BLAZON:..Azure (blue), four bars gemel and a chief Or (gold).
CREST:..N/A.
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....Meynell or Menell of co. York, England
BLAZON:..Azure (blue), six bars gemel and a chief Or (gold).
CREST:..N/A.
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...Meynell or Mennell
BLAZON:..Paly of six Gules (red) and Or (gold), on a bend Sable (black), three horseshoes Or (gold).
CREST:..N/A.
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