BROWN, BURT, ABNEY, WATTS, and related families

My Southern Roots

Abney of Williesley coat of arms. This is the true coat of arms of the Abney family, and was borne by Sir Thomas Abney, Lord Mayor of London, 1694, but in consequence of the marriage, circa 1400, of John de Abney with the co-heiress of Ingwardby of Willesley, most of the Abneys, descendants thereof, adopted for their hereditary arms the coat of Ingwardby, viz. Or (gold), on a chief Gules (red), a lion passant Argent (silver). Le Neve's "Knights" gives as the arms of Sir Edward Abney, of Willesley, knighted at Whitehall, 2 Aug 1673, this later coat.

"Some family trees have beautiful leaves, but some just have a bunch of nuts. Remember it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking."
Compiler: John K. Brown, Jr., Prattville, Alabama

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