Thomas Blackstone b. 1615 Need Coat of Arms picture added to this man ? Can anyone answer this Thanks.

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I'm looking for something I can put as a back ground on my profile but don't want to shame the name with something not properly from this set that come to America,  Thanks
WikiTree profile: Thomas Blackstone
in Genealogy Help by Donnie Blackstone G2G6 Pilot (272k points)
retagged by Keith Hathaway
His ancestry is unknown.  Do you have any reason to think he was armigerous?

Every Family name, no matter how significant their stature, history or surname, will have its own distinctive crest somewhere down the line right?

No, most families do not have a coat of arms.  Plus, coats of arms do not belong to family names, they belong to specific families.  There may have been an armigerous Blackstone family, but not all people named Blackstone are allowed to use it.  You have to descend from someone to whom the coat of arms was specifically granted or allowed, and that descent has to be shown to have been in the male line or through a heraldic heiress.

Ok Thanks. Now if He arrived in Virginia in 1642 sponsored by Cornelius de Hull are they anyway we can figure if he did come from a line with a Coat of Arms, Looks more like my Blackstone line may have been in Derbyshire, England can we find out which set of Blackstone, Blackistone or Blacksten family was from Derbyshire that may have come to America?  

Proving the English origins if the immigrant is always the trick.

In this time period, you would expect and need to find a family who was allowed arms during the  Visitations undertaken by the Heralds of the College of Arms. Checking the Visitation of Derbyshire taken in 1662, there were no Blackstone families allowed arms.

Ok Thanks are the any other help on the Blackstone family you could help me with or point me in the right direction to whom to talk to, I been on wikitree about 6 years and this dead end on Blackstone is not went anywhere,  Thank you for helping.

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There is no such thing as a family coat of arms. These belong specifically to the man to whom they were awarded.  As Joe commented, if you want to attribute a coat of arms to this man, you will have to find his coat of arms that were made for him and since his ancestry is  unknown at this time, this would seem an impossible task.
by Jeanie Roberts G2G6 Pilot (140k points)
selected by Jo Fitz-Henry
I just didn't know if he was the same set as Sir William Blackstone
Cornelius De Hull Plantation is who he come to when he got to Virgina this is a start on his line seems, I can find something in Virginia just don't know where to start?
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Hay Donnie, At HouseofNames.com there is jpeg of the Coat of Arms for Thomas Blackstone 1615- 1645 plus other info as well. BTW Ancestry. Com is free until Monday night at midnight. Hope this helps.
by Tim Harwood G2G Crew (470 points)
I don't really know how to do a lot on this tablet, I was just wondering if someone could put one on his profile,  and I don't know alot about it but from what i do understand is that each coat of arms as you go from father to son has to have something different, right? I'm going to look at this information , I would just like something to add on the father to each Generation to me to my two sons  to show our connection to one another, down the line, Thanks
Got another Thomas Blackstone arrived 1635 to Virginia if this one arrived 1642 they was already one been here. I got his information on a Blackstone page if someone needs to see it.  Thanks for any help on these Blackstone's
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There is no such thing as a 'coat of arms for a surname'. Coats of arms belong to individuals. For any person to have a right to a coat of arms they must either have had it granted to them or be descended in the legitimate male line from a person to whom arms were granted or confirmed in the past. If their was no male heir but a daughter who then married someone with a coat of arms, it could very well be shown quartered in future male descendants. All legitimate coats of arms I believe are registered with the College of Arms. Too many people show their families ancestors as having coats of arms that they really are not entitled to show.show.
by Malcolm Hoare G2G6 Mach 1 (13.1k points)
Ok Thank you. I love to find out all this knowledge

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