Recorded Arms for Shank and Shanks

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Officially Recorded in Scotland

Arms	Armiger	Blazon	Source
	SHANK OF CASTLE RIGGS	Gules on a fess Argent between a cinquefoil in chief and a falcon’s leg jessed and belled in base of the second a hawk’s lure if the first.	Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary 1732
	William Moffatt SHANKS	Sable three legs embowed Or issuant from the chief, on a chief Argent a cross crosslet fitchee Vert between two millrinds Azure.	An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973 4th August 1952 39/11

Officially Recorded in England

Arms Armiger Blazon Source
Thomas SHANKE
of Rowlsby, co Norfolk Purpure a fess between three escallops Or. a) Harleian Society's Grantees of Arms 15 Aug 1562 by Sir G Dethick, Garter. Harl.MS.1441, fol.80 and Q’s coll. Oxf.MS145 fol.31b
b) Blazon: Harleian Society’s Visitation of Norfolk 1664

John SHANKE
of Caistor by Yarmouth, co Norfolk Gules a fess between three escallops Argent a crescent for difference. Harleian Society’s Visitation of Norfolk 1664
John was the second son of Daniel Shanke of Beccles, Suffolk, son and heir of Thomas Shanke of Rolesby

Recorded Elsewhere

Arms Armiger Blazon Source
James SHANKS
of 79 Merrion Square, Dublin Azure on a fesse between in chief two lures and in base a hawk’s leg erased jessed and belled Argent three cinquefoils Gules. A C Fox-Davies' Armorial Families 1902

Lt George SHANKS RNVR
of Duneevan, Weybridge Or semée of wings conjoined in lure Sable on a chief of the second a lion passant guardant of the first. A C Fox-Davies' Armorial Families 1929