(last updated on November 18, 2001)

SCAWEN, SCOWEN and SCOWN

COATS OF ARMS

There are 4 entries for the above surnames in Burke's "General Armory", pg. 903.

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...Scawen of Aden, co. Cornwall, England

ARMS:..Argent (silver), a chevron Gules (red), between three griffin's heads erased Sable (black), the two in chief respecting each other.

CREST:..A cubit arm habited Gules (red), cuffed Argent (silver), holding in the hand the trunk of a tree eradicated, near the top a branch, issuing all Proper (natural color).

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...Scawen of Molenick, St. Germains, co. Cornwall, England

NOTE:..This family is traced in their pedigree to the time of Edward I, when the representative m. the heiress of Molenick; they removed into Surreyshire about 1712, and became extinct in 1801, when the last James Scawn, Esq., M.P. Surreyshire, son of Thomas Scawen, by Tryphena, his wife, dau. and sole heiress of Lord James Russell, of Maidwell, d. leaving his sister, Tryphena, Countess Bathurst, his heiress...There was a younger branch settled at Trehane, in Probus, in consequence of a match with the co-heiress of Trehane; another junior branch, descended from a younger son of the same family, temp. Henry VIII, was of Arden, in Stoke Climsland

ARMS:..Same as above.

CREST:..N/A.

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...Scawen of Melenick, co. Cornwall, England

NOTE:..Richard Scawen, aged 30 anno 40 Queen Elizabeth, A.D. 1597, son and heir of Edward Scawen, who d. 12 May 1597, the ninth in descent from William Scawen, of Melenick, temp. Edward I...Visitation Cornwall, 1620.

ARMS:..Azure (blue), a chevron Gules (red), between three griffins' heads erased Sable (black) those in chief respecting each other.

CREST:..N/A.

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...Scawen of Trehane, co. Cornwall, England

NOTE:..John Scawen, second son of Edward Scawen, living 1597, m. Elizabeth, dau. and co-heir of John Trehane, Esq., of Trehane...Visitation Cornwall, 1620.

ARMS:..Azure (blue), a chevron Gules (red), between three griffins' heads erased Sable (black) those in chief respecting each other.

CREST:..N/A.

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