Auctioneers Cheffins of Cambridge are offering for sale the 1919 Grant of Arms to John Evelyn Ansell (b.1860 d.1936) of Glenloch Road. The auction is due to be held 21st February. There is no auctioneer’s estimate.
Arms: Gules on a saltire Argent between four bezants two swords in saltire proper pommelled and hilted Or.
Crest: A torteau charged with two swords as in the Arms.
Motto: Fais Ce Que Dois
Dated: 23rd January 1919
Garter: Henry Farnham Burke
Clarenceax: William Henry Weldon
Fox-Davies’ Armorial Families 1929
John Evelyn Ansell and his wife, Ada Maria, had two children, Enid (b.1897) and Evelyn (b.1898 d.1970). Evelyn married Mary L S Eaton in 1928 and lived in Cambridge. They had two daughters, Meryll Carinthia (b.1930) and Rosemary (b.1934).
