Unknown Livery button. - British & Commonwealth Military Badge Forum

High Wood · #1 22-11-23, 06:40 PM

I have searched on line and through several volumes of Burke's Peerage and have been unable to trace this coat of arms. I cannot find a family connection to the motto, Deus est super domus. (God is a wonderful home). I can find only one family with a running horse as a crest, the Colt family, and this is not their coat of arms. I have now run out of ideas.

Can anyone please identify who wore this button?

Buttonman · #2 22-11-23, 07:13 PM

Fairbairn's Crests gives the motto as being used by the Straker family [Durham] & their crest is a horse at full speed.

David.

High Wood · #3 22-11-23, 07:56 PM

David,

thank you for your help, it is appreciated. I have found a Captain John Coppin Straker in Kelly's Handbook 1886. His residence is listed as Stagshaw House, Corbridge-on-Tyne. He was a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant as well as a Captain in the Northumberland Hussars, so I am pleased that there is a military connection, even if it isn't a military button.

Simon.

Buttonman · #4 22-11-23, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by High Wood

David,

thank you for your help, it is appreciated. I have found a Captain John Coppin Straker in Kelly's Handbook 1886. His residence is listed as Stagshaw House, Corbridge-on-Tyne. He was a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant as well as a Captain in the Northumberland Hussars, so I am pleased that there is a military connection, even if it isn't a military button.

Simon.

Glad to help Simon.

David.