PART VII. Halliday Arms

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1 PART VII Halliday Arms In a Matriculation dated September 11, 2012, Anthony Lionel George Halliday (A.L.H) was recognized, by the Lyon Court, as Representer of the Family of Hallidays of Castlemains with Arms as shown at the end of this monograph. The genesis of the A.L.H Arms is explored below. A: Corehead early Hallidays. The inscriptions to the Arms matriculated by A.L.H. s ancestor John Delap Halliday in 1779 and those matriculated in the Lyon Court by his close contemporaries Robert Douglas Halliday (1775) and Dame Henrietta Halliday (1785) trace their pedigrees to the Ancient Family of Halliday of Corehead. Their Arms like those of earlier Hallidays incorporate the erect sword (of various tinctures) with pommel set in crescents. These are essentially the elements of the gravestone arms of John who died in 1756 and seem generally to be accepted as the original Corehead Arms of the Halliday family. Arthur Radburn (a Halliday on the distaff) has compiled an extensive collection of Scottish Halliday shields based on descriptions of the Lyon Court and heraldic authorities notably Stodart whose Scottish Arms appeared in Radburn s collection also includes shields for English and Irish Hallidays. The collection can be consulted on a readily accessible web-site and Mr. Radburn provides an address. Early Scottish Halliday Shields reproduced here by permission of Arthur Radburn show an erect sword combined with one or more crescents. The crescents symbolize, it seems, participation in Crusades. Wording in blue script is Radburn s Pre 1565 Halyday These arms might be blazoned as : Per pale, dexter per fess Azure and Argent, in chief a saltire Argent and in base a crescent Gules; sinister Argent a sword palewise Gules. This illustration comes from Stodart's Scottish Arms (1881). Stodart reproduced it from Workman's Manuscript, a roll of arms compiled c1565, which is preserved in the Lyon Office in Edinburgh. Which Halyday bore the arms is not indicated.

2 Pre 1672 Halliday of Canonbie, Dumfries A sword erect and in chief three crescents. According to Stodart (1881), "in the churchyard of Canonbie there is a Halliday coat cut in stone a sword erect and in chief three crescents." He gives no further details. As neither Balfour Paul's Ordinary of Scottish Arms (1893) nor Gayre's Roll of Scottish Arms (1969) mentions these arms, perhaps they predate the opening of the official Lyon Register in 1672 and were never officially recorded B. Tullibole Sir John Halliday All three of the late eighteenth century armigerous Hallidays claim descent from a nameless Halliday of the Corehead line who died heirless in 1608 whereupon, they claim, the role of family head devolved through a Sir John Halliday of Tillibole 1 from whom all three claim descent. Intriguingly the quartering of Arms inscribed above the portal of Tullibole Castle 2 in Kinross and shown below depart from the traditional Corehead type. These Arms record the union, in 1608, of the then owner, Sir John Halliday with Helen Oliphant. (Unusually the husband s arms are shown sinister ). There is no erect sword and, perhaps for reasons of symmetry no boar s head, saltire, or Virtute Parta motto. 1 Modern Tullibole 2 The photograph was taken by Malcolm Strang Steele during a visit he and A.L.H. made to Tullibole Castle in March The owner Lord Moncrieff has a collection of manuscripts relating to the Halliday connections with Tullibole.

3 But this does not preclude a Corehead/Tullibole link. It appears that in depictions of his own Arms Sir John used a traditional Corehead version: Radburn cites Nisbet's System of Heraldry (1816) in ascribing the following elements to the Sir John Arms: Argent, a sword paleways the pommel within a crescent in base all Gules, and on a canton Azure a saltire Argent. Crest : A boar's head couped Argent armed Or. Motto: Virtute Parta. Nisbet names Pont's Alphabetical Collection (c1620) as his source. Radburn further notes that : A report of Sir John Halliday's funeral in 1619 suggests that he used these arms. Stodart (1881) quotes 17th- century heralds Stacie and Porteous as saying that the canton of the Scottish flag was "ane reward" for the Tulliebole family. The Saltire seems has nevertheless to have featured in the Arms of non- Tullibole Hallidays both before and after Sir John. C. Kirkudbright Gravestone of John Halliday (d.1756) The grave of John Halliday (died 1756) in Old St. Cuthbert s Church Kirkudbright styles John as of Castlemains and reproduces his Arms in stone carving. Despite its age, the carving is still clear and displays the classic Corehead Arms : the erect sword set in crescents, saltire, boar s head crest and Virtute Parta motto. (Photo by Mrs. P. D. Halliday October 2009).

4 D. Late Eighteenth Registrations of Robert Douglas and Dame Henrietta Halliday The 1775 matriculation of Robert Douglas Halliday by the Lyon Court describes 3 his Arms as Argent, a sword erect in pale proper hilted and pommeled Or the pommel within a crescent in base Gules, on a dexter canton Azure a saltire of the first. Crest : A boar s head couped Argent armed Or. Motto: Virtute Parta. The bookplate shown below (No in the Franks Collection of Bookplates in the British Museum) displays Arms that seem to accord with the description in the Robert Douglas matriculation. But despite his claim to be descended from Sir John of Tullibole, Robert Douglas Arms show no Moncrieff chief 4 ermine. 3 From Radburn 4 In heraldry a chief is a band running horizontally along the top edge of a shield.

5 In a Dame Henrietta Halliday matriculated, with the Lyon Court, Arms described below. There is no bookplate in the Franks collection but Radburn provides the following rendition of the shield. Argent, a sword erected in pale proper hilted and pommeled Or the last within a crescent in base Gules, on a dexter canton Azure a saltire of the field charged with a star 5 Gules. Crest : A boar's head couped proper. Motto : Virtute Parta. Radburn writes: Dame Henrietta Halliday matriculated these arms, crest, and motto at the Lyon Office on 3 February Radburn writes: Who was she? Today 'dame' is the title used by a lady who has been knighted, but in the 18th century it seems to have been used as a form of address for ladies of high social status E: John Delap Halliday an error corrected. Before this century, John Delap was the only Castlemains 6 to have matriculated Arms with the Lyon Court. Through his father, John of Antigua, John Delap was the grandson of the John Halliday who died in 1756 and whose Arms are shown in Section C above. His mother was Elizabeth Delap, daughter of Francis Delap of Antigua. John Delap married, in 1770, Lady Jane Tollemache a daughter of the Earl of Dysart. John Delap s Arms are described in his matriculation as 5. The five pointed star ( mullet ) denotes in the English cadency system a third son. This may mean that Dame Henrietta was the unmarried daughter of a third son. The extract notes an English (Gloucestershire) provenance from an unnumbered son descended from the Tullibole Hallidays (but again the Arms display no Moncrieff chief ermine). 6 For reasons that are obscure John Delap styled himself as of Castledykes rather than the of Castlemains used by his grandfather.. The terms Castlemains and Castledykes appear to be interchangeable.

6 Argent a sword erected in pale proper hilted and pommeled Or the last within a crescent in base Gules, a chief Ermine, and a dexter canton Azure charged with a saltire of the field. Crest A dexter arm armed, couped below the shoulder proper flexed at the elbow grasping a dagger both proper the hilt and pommel Or and distilling drops of blood from the point. Motto: Merito The bookplate of John Delap shown below, (Franks collection No.13381) follows the inscription with respect to the sword, crest, motto, saltire, and chief ermine. The dexter quartering includes the eagle of the Delap family. The sinister quarterings incorporate the Arms of John Delap s Tollemache wife. While conducting his research into the family c.1898 Stratford Charles Halliday 7 came across a note, dated March 24, 1787, by John Delap, commenting on the description of his Arms in the 1779 Extract of Matriculation: The above Crest has been always worn by Mother s family, the Delaps and was by mistake added instead of the Boar s Head usually worn by my father s family with the above coat of arms. Motto to the arms: Virtute Parta 8 7 Stratford Charles, of the Medstead branch, was the grandfather of the author of Halliday, Colonel Cecil Alexander Tollemache Halliday and his life is recounted in Chapter 11 of the book. S.C.H. s research papers can be consulted in the Library of Genealogical Society in London.. 8 S.C.H adds: True copy of Note at bottom of copy of family Pedigree sent me by Lord Tollemache 21 February 1898

7 This apparently belated realization by John Delap, is reflected in a post 1779 bookplate (also in the Franks collection). The Arms shown drop the Delap crest and motto in favour of the Halliday boar s head and Virtute Parta. Another bookplate in the Franks collection (13380) shows the Arms of John Delap s younger brother, Francis Delap: These Arms follow the revised arms of his elder brother without the helm and Tollemache quarterings (Francis did not marry). The chief ermine is retained in expanded form.

8 F: Bookplates of Lionel Hallidays 9 Bookplates exist for a number of Halliday descendants of John Delap. Some are to be found in the Franks Collection in the British Museum others are from private collections.. These are the bookplate Arms of, resepctively, ALH s Great grandfather and Grandfather, Francis Edward (( ) (Franks 13380) and his son Lionel Edward ( ). Lattter is not in Franks collection in the British Museum; this was compiled c.1900; The bookplates are identical. They show Halliday and Delap but not Tollllemache symbols. They retain the Moncrieff chief ermine even though the latter could be post- SCH research.. G: Bookplates of Medstead Hallidays 9 Following CATH, Halliday descendants of Francis Alexander Delap Halliday (second son with issue of John Delap Halliday0 are here divided between the Lionel Hallidays, descendants of his eldest son Lionel Halliday ( ) and descendants of his fourth son (second with issue) Francis Augustus Halliday( ) who resided at Medstead in Hampshire.

9 George Richard Halliday ( ) and his grand- nephew Louis Stratford Tollemache Halliday VC, ( ). Note in in the latter the disappearance of the Tollemache and Moncrieff emblems and the accretion of the helm. The disappearance of the Moncrieff chief ermine in the latter probably reflects SCH s genealogical research c which failed to confirm the Tullibole connection claimed by John Delap Halliday.. H: Anthony Lionel George Halliday (1935-) On September , Lyon matriculated Arms for the publisher of this blog. The Arms are described in the extract: Argent 10, a sword erect in pale 11, Sable 12 hilted and pommelled Or 13 the pommel with a crescent in base Gules 14, on dexter canton Azure 15 a saltire 16 Argent. Above the Shield is placed an Helm befitting his degree with a Mantling Gules doubled Argent and in a Wreath of the Liveries is set for Crest a boar s head couped Argent and armed Or, and in an Escrole over the same this Motto VIRTUTE PARTA. An artist of the Lyon Court incorporates these element in the Arms shown here: 10 Silver 11 Pale in heraldry seems to denote a vertical division in a Shield and its significance here where the shield is essentially undivided (except for the Saltire) is obscure. 12 Black 13 Gold 14 Red 15 Blue 16 St. Andrew s cross.

10 These Arms, selected by Lyon with some input from A.L.H., reflect the pedigree claims shown in the Extract of Matriculation itself and incorporate some, but not all, elements of Arms used by A.L.H. s direct ascendants and other, closely related, Hallidays. The shield, shorn of any Delap and Tollemache symbols employed by John Delap and his descendants, follows closely the carving on the gravestone of John Halliday who died in 1756 viz: erect sword, crusader crescents, saltire, boar s head crest and Virtute Parta motto.. Although there is no mention of a helm in John Delap s mtriculation inscription, he included this symbol in both his bookplates shown above. Of his descendants, only Louis Stratford Tollemache ( ) displays a helm in his bookmark. The A.L.H. Arms reflect the scholarship of Stratford Charles Halliday ( ) (S.C.H). S.C.H after extensive genealogical research 17 concluded that John Delap s claimed Tullibole descent could not be supported on the documentary evidence. CATH, in Hallidays, accepted his grandfather s conclusions and does not attempt to trace the Castlemains Halliday line back beyond the John ( ) who purchased the property in c And again, following his grandfather, CATH rejects any genealogical link to Tullibole and thus the entitlement of John Delap and his descendants to sport the Moncrieff chief ermine in their Arms. (Hallidays p.167). 17 Relevant Documents held in the Genealogical Society London.