William Wightman rubbing, Harrow on the Hill, EnglandRe William Wightman brass rubbing/coat of arms
William Wightman
1579 St. Mary Harrow on the Hill, London
48" x 18"
Photos of William Wightman
Buried in the church is also his wife Etheldreda (Audry)
Reference: Asmoleum, County Middlesex, Parish Harrow
http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/departments/antiquities/brass/counties/Middlesex.html
Wightman is depicted wearing Elizabethan/Jacobean armour, and the brass attempts super realism, with an abundance of cross hatched shading, a hallmark of this period (of decline) in the art of brass engraving
Rubbed by Anne Miller, 11 November, 1969
Wightman's Coat of Arms
Arms. Argent, on a Bend engrailed Gules, between three Cornish choughs proper, as many leopards' faces Or.Crest. On a wreath argent-azure, a stork Argent, beak and members Gules, holding in her mouth a Snake winding round her body and foreleg vert.No motto. Family name Wightman used instead. This third coat, much later, was granted for distinguished service to William Wightman, Esq., of Harrow-on-the-Hill, near London.
The coat of arms of William of Harrow-on-the-Hill is quite widely shown as the ancestral coat of the descendants of George Wightman of Quidnessett. However, so far as the records show, William had no son to carry on the family name. Therefore, it is obvious that no one of Wightman name can rightfully claim descent from him, and consequently any claim to his coat of arms by one bearing the name "Wightman" appears to be totally unjustifiable. Source: < http://www.wightmanfamily.com/coat_of_arms.html>
found on ancestry.com
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