A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (1836)
, esq. of that city,and liad two sons,George. Martin-Archer, the present Sir Mar-tin Archer Shee, P.R.A. Arms—Party per bend indented, or, andazure ; a fleur-de-lys in chief, another inbase, counterchanged. Crest—A swan rousant, wings indorsed,beaked, and unguled. Motto—Cruce salus—or, vincit… … This ancient family, as we are informedby Mr. Thoresby in his * Ducatus Leodien-sis, published in 1715, derives its surnamefrom Sikes, or Sike-Dyke, near Carlisle, inCumberland, among the gentry of whichshire we find Walter de Sike returned aboutthe commencement of the fifteenth century.One of its…
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