Shropshire's Punning Heraldry - Heiring

 Heiring.

William Heiring, of Oswestry.

Arms: Azure, semee of cross crosslets fitchee and six herrings naiant in pale Or.

(Visitations 1584)

Heiring, or Heringe, Wm, Bailiff of Shrewsbury, 1580.

Arms: Argent, semee of cross crosslets six herrings hauriant Or.

Heiring.

Arms: Azure, semee of cross crosslets six herrings naiant in pale Or. 

The arms of William Heiring, of Oswestry.

The surname Heiring has multiple distinct origins across Europe, primarily functioning as an occupational or topographic name. It is largely tied t0 the Fish Trade: A metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or a seller of herring (from Middle Dutch haring or Old English hǣring).

Never keen on arms that are either semee or a fur with a charge or charges of the same tincture placed upon the field, I have made the crosses a flat yellow Or and the herrings a metalic gold Or in an attempt to make them more visible. It is still not ideal.