le Beu, Bews, Bewes

[Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>]

 I have now found the coat-of-arms of the Bews family which I hope
will be of interest to your
Australian contributor from whom we have heard nothing since we embarked
on our detailed 
research into the Sinclair/Bews connection which has taken us from Orkney
to Cornwall to
Calvados in France.

The coat of arms is described as follows:

        

        

        

        

"On
a chapeau crimson, turned up, erm.,

        

        

        

        

a pegasus, rearing, of bay colour, mane

        

        

        

        

and tail, sa., wings,or, in mouth a sprig

        

        

        

        

of laurel,ppr."  

which literally means: "on a crimson hat with turned up ermine there
is a rearing bay horse with
                                 
a black mane and tail, with golden wings and a sprig of laurel in its
mouth"

Perhaps someone, who is better versed in heraldry than I am, will be able
to make something out
of the above information.  There is no similarity with any of
the  many Sinclair coats-of-arms which
are given in the "St Clairs of the Isles".

Niven Sinclair