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Friday, 15 July 2011

Kinderton Roll - image update now complete

All of the new images have now been added to the Vale Royal (Kinderton Roll) part of the site. http://cheshire-heraldry.org.uk/vale_ro...

Thursday, 14 July 2011

Are you a mug if you get it wrong?

Some time ago the Cheshire Heraldry Society Programme Secretary approached me to ask if I could shed any light on the armorial bearings illu...

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Cheshire Heraldry article in The Heraldry Gazette

It is only a matter of weeks since I received my copy of The Heraldry Society's Heraldry Gazette and I notice that there is already an ...

Updates to The Kinderton Roll

I have finally got around to resizing the images prepared for the Vale Royal part of the site. This evening I have got as far as Sir Peers D...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011

A new season of talks.

The Cheshire Heraldry Society Courtesy of our Programme Secretary, John Titterton, here is the programme for the whole year 2011/12. 24 Sep...

Sunday, 5 June 2011

The Blackden Seal

This seal was found in Blackden. The Lombardic script reads, SIGILLVM HAWISE DE GOSTRE DO[MINAE]: The seal of Hawise lady of Goostrey. It ha...

Saturday, 4 June 2011

DIY Coat of Arms

The Victoria & Albert Museum has an online programme which "lets you design your own coat of arms step by step". I was tempted...

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About Me

Martin Goldstraw: The Cheshire Heraldry and Heraldry Addict Web Sites are the public face of a Heraldry Addict, a brand or trading style of Martin Goldstraw. Martin Goldstraw is the author and illustrator of the Cheshire Heraldry web site and the book CHESHIRE HERALDRY – THE VISITATIONS OF 1533 TO 1580. He is also one of the two Directors and a founder of the publishing company The Armorial Register Limited. Born at a very early age in Leek, a town in rural North Staffordshire known as the Queen of the Moorlands, his interest in the heraldry of the County of Cheshire began when it became apparent that the origins of the surname Goldstraw lie in the surname of Goostrey. The village of Goostrey is within the bounds of the County Palatine of Cheshire. Heraldry is something of an addiction as far as Martin is concerned and he was pleased to be granted armorial bearings of his own from the College of Arms at the commencement of the new Millennium.

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