SHANK and SHANKS ARMS

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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