Barrow Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Barrow Name Origin
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Barrow Family Crest
Origin of the Name Barrow
The Barrow family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. The name Barrow is usually of locational origin and is taken from a number of places called Barrow in several Counties in England. The name is derived from a very old English word 'bearo' or 'bearu' meaning a grove or a wooded area. An early recorded bearer of the name relates to a Thomas Barrowe who is recorded as having married Elizabeth Letter in the year 1554, at St. Mary Magdalene Church in London. An Adam de Barewe was recorded in the 'Pipe Rolls of Lincolnshire' in the year 1192. A Nicholas Barrow was recorded as having been Christened at St. Margaret's Church in, Westminster in the year 1565.
Names were recorded in these ancient documents to make it easier for their overlords to collect taxes and to keep records of the population at any given time. When the overlords acquired land by either force or gifts from their rulers, they created charters of ownership for themselves and their vassals. It was by creating, maintaining and updating these reference books that they were able to maintain their authority and enforce laws.
In Ireland this name and its variants were introduced into Ulster Province by settlers who arrived from England and Scotland, especially during the seventeenth century. It was the 'Plantations of Ireland' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that marked the end of Gaelic supremacy in Ireland. While the influx of settlers in the wake of the earlier Anglo-Norman invasion of the twelfth century resulted in a full integration into Irish society of the new arrivals, the same never occurred with the Ulster Planters who maintained their own distinct identity.
The Barrow coat of arms came into existence centuries ago. The process of creating coats of arms (also often called family crests) began in the eleventh century although a form of Proto-Heraldry may have existed in some countries prior to this. The new art of Heraldry made it possible for families and even individual family members to have their very own coat of arms, including all Barrow descendants.
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| This Months 'Meaning of Symbols' on Family Crests: COLORS | |||||
OR (Gold) = Generosity |
Argent (Silver/White) = Sincerity, Peace |
Gules (Red) = Warrior, Martyr, Military Strength |
Azure (Blue) = Strength, Loyalty |
Vert (Green) = Hope, loyalty in love |
Sable (Black) = Constancy, Grief |
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