In the heraldic traditions of England and Scotland only an individual, rather than a family, can have a coat of arms. In those traditions coats of arms are legal property and can only be used undifferentiated by one person at any given time. Other descendants of the original bearer could bear the ancestral arms only with some change, usually a different color or the addition of a distinguishing charge.

Arms, as displayed here, are not necessarily connected to any one person or family within our direct family(s), or our database. Rather, these are included here as a way of showing the arms of people with the same (or variant) surname as a way of background and amusement. It will be noted if any of the arms is known to be connected with a specific ancestor or family.

  This is the Coat of Arms of Edward Howell of Southampton, New York, as it appears on the cover of Emma Ross' Howell book. He was born at the Manor of Westbury, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England and baptized 22 July 1584 at Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire. He married (1) Frances Paxton, who died 2 July 1630 and was buried in England, and married (2) Eleanor, who came to Boston with him in 1639. Edward Howell died in 1655 and is buried in Southampton, Long Island, New York.

  This is a Temple Coat of Arms as pictured in the book "The Rise of the Temples." It is first seen on the Tomb of Nicholas Temple of Temple Hall who died in 1506. This crest is described as a favorite, amongst others, with Americans.

  This is the Hemingway Coat of Arms as embossed on the cover of the book "The Adendum to Descendants of Isaac Hemingway, Jr." Printed by the Hemingway Book Committee of Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1981

"Black shield with three red stars on a wavy silver fesse between three gold swans" - Crest: A swans head.

This is a rendering of a Coat of Arms associated with the Rev. George Bingham (1803), of Melcombe, Dorsetshire, England, as shown on page 350 of "A Genealogical Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Volume IV" by Sir John Burke, published in 1838.

Az. a bend cotized between six crosses patee or. - Crest; a spread eagle rising from a rock, ppr. - Motto "Spes mea Christus" = Christ is My Hope.

These arms, particularly the shield (unchanged), seems to be used by many other Binghams, including those in Ireland. Specifically the Earls of Lucan and those associated with Bingham Castle in County Mayo. See p.83, "The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales" by Bernard Burke, published in 1884.

  This is the Fuller Coat of Arms as included on page eight of the book "A Brief Sketch of Thomas Fuller and His Descendants." by Jesse Franklin Fuller of Appleton, Wisconsin, published in 1896.

Argent, three bars qules, on a canton of the second a castle or. - Crest, a dexter arm embowed, vested Argent, Cuffed Sable, holding in the hand proper a sword of first hilt of pommel or. The Bar is one of the honorable Ordinaries representing a belt of honor given for eminent services, The canton is a subordinate Ordinary representing the banner given to Knights-Banneret.

Of these arms Mr. Fuller notes: "These arms have been long in the family, and Burke in his General Armory describes the same arms belonging to a Fuller family on the Isle of Wright, which renders highly probable that these two branches had the same origins."