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SHORT or SHORTT ARMS

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Officially Recorded in Scotland

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. Captain John Macourtie SHORTT HEIC
b.1803 d.1866 		Or a griffin passant Azure on a chief ermine two chess rooks Gules.

Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1873

Later Major-General, Indian Army

Recorded Elsewhere

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. Peter SHORT
of Tenterden, co Kent

Azure a griffin passant Or between three estoiles Argent. 1) Harleian Society's Grantees of Arms
Grant by Camden, Nov 1614

2)Visitation of Kent 1619

. 1) John SHORT
of Exeter

2) Francis Baring SHORT
of Bickham, co Devon

Gules a griffin segreant Or a chief ermine. 1) Harleian Society's: Visitation of Devon 1620

2) Burke's Landed Gentry 1879
Claimed descent from John Short 2nd son of John Short of Exeter.

. John SHORTE
of London

Azure a griffin segreant Argent between three estoiles Or a crescent for difference. Harleian Society's:
1) Visitation of London 1633, 1634 & 1635
2) Visitation of London 1664

Descent from 2nd son of Thomas Short of Ashley, co Staffs.

. Edward SHORT
of Mayford, co Staffs

Azure a griffin segreant Argent between three estoiles Or a crescent for difference. Harleian Society's:
Staffordshire Pedigrees 1664-1700

Descent from eldest son of Thomas Short of Ashley, co Staffs.

. John SHORT
Merchant Taylor of London

Sable a griffin passant Argent armed and langued Gules a chief ermine. Harleian Society's:
a) Grantees of Arms - Grant 3 June 1663 (also to his brothers Peter & Thomas)
b) Visitation of London 1664
. John Hassard SHORT
of Bickham, co Devon

Sable a griffin passant Argent on a chief of the last five ermine spots of the field. Burke's Landed Gentry 1879

Claimed descent from Anthony Short eldest son of John Short of Exeter.

. Rev Hugh Martin SHORT
of Newham Hall, co Yorks

Quarterly 1st & 4th Azure a griffin segreant Argent a chief ermine (for Short) 2nd Or on a bend Gules three goats trippant Argent (for Holwell) 3rd Sable a stag's head couped Or between three bugle horns Or stringed and garnished Azure (for Thurston). Burke's Landed Gentry 1879

Officially Recorded in South Africa

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. Thomas SHORTT
Baron of Galmoy 		Sable, a fess Or fretty Gules, between three castles triple-towered Or.

South African Government Gazette 22878, Notice 1291
Applied to register arms in South Africa in 07 December 2001