Paine/Payne Coat of Arms

The aim of this page is to collect together as many Paine/Payne Coats of Arms and try and establish the history and authenticity of each one.

We are also told that there is a registered Scottish Clan Tartan for the Payne family (Payne Family/Clan Tartan WR2554)
It looks like this:

The following Coat of Arms is from Stephen PAINE of Rehoboth's web site. This is an excellent web site which has a name search capability, I suggest you go and have a look

Azure, a bend, raguly, between six estoiles, or. In grass vert, an otter proper, in the mouth a fish.

ARMS:	Defined as hereditary marks of honor regularly composed of figures granted and authorized by sovereigns for distinguishing, differentiating and illustrating persons, families and communities. "The artist is permitted many liberties, hence the slight difference in coat of arms of same family name."
BEND:	Divides shield into two parts.
RAGULY:	Notched in regular, oblique breaks, emblematic of difficulties encountered.
BLUE:	Loyalty and Truth
GOLD:	Generosity and elevation of mind
COTISED:	A diminutive of the Chevron. No distinctive meaning, but added to lend variety
OTTER:	Nothing mentioned, but in old illustrations animals appear similar (Beavers and Otters).
BEAVER:	Industrious and patient.
CHEVRON:	"Likened unto the roof of a house, emblematic of one who protects the defenseless, or builds fortresses or churches for his contry."
STAR:	Means that this branch of the family descends from the third son of the man granted the coat
MOTTO:	I follow nature, the leader

Translation: Gules denotes Military Fortitude and Magnanimity. The lion is the symbol of Strength, Courage and Generosity.

MOTTO: Malo mori quam foedari Translation: I would rather die than be dishonored (i.e., Death before Dishonor)

Our thanks to Joe Payne JPayne5744@aol.com for submitting this crest and description.

We have received some more information and quote below a message received from
Ronald G. Payne of Middlebury, Vermont, USA:

" I was going through some of my Father's papers and came across a Coat
of Arms that is not on your site. It was in something compiled by Wallace J.
Payne of Bridport, VT (my Grandfathers Cousin). It is a line drawing that
was copied from a source unknown to me. I have created a accurate drawing of
it on my computer, but it is a copy of a copy."

Along with the drawing was a description of the symbols and colors
used:

1. "Argent" - Silver, referring to the shield's purity.

2. "Fesse" - The Belt of a Knight.

3. "Engrailed" - Indented or wavy edges, denoting that the honor was
obtained with dignity.

4. "Gules" - Red, referring to the belt, courage.

5. "Martlets" - Birds of a Swallow kind without feet denoting a young son,
having no landed inheritance.

6. "Or" - Gold, goodness.

9. "Bordure" - An additional honor or mark of cadency, distinguishing one
branch from another.

10. Second, of the second color named, red.

11. "Bezantee" - Sprinkled with round pieces of gold. Said to indicate the
coins of Byzantium or Constantinople and that they had been to the Crusades
and ransomed.

12. "Erazed" - When the head is torn from the body and presenting at the
neck a rough edge or ragged appearance instead of straight, showing strength
as against skill with a sword.

13. "Azure" - Blue. Truth and fidelity.

14. "Bezants" - Substance of bezantee, gold coins.

15. "Salteruise" - Arranged in the form of a cross X signifying Crusade
service.

I am not sure what the head above the shield is meant to be. Possibly
a Dog or a Wolf.

Ronald also provided some more information on the origins of the Paine/Payne name which we have posted on the Names page.

We have received (Feb 2006) another version of this crest from Mike Oliver who writes:

I am not all that distantly related to the Paynes through Keziah Hopkins marrying James Simeon Payne waaaaay back in 1848.

Anyways, was researching family history with my grandmother, and we happened upon a relative's investigation into the Payne family name, and her rendering of the Payne coat of arms. We decided to double check it, and found your site, the only one with the wolf's head crest.

I have included a digital version which I whipped up from it, and the description she wrote.

"Shield: silvery - purity
Fesse - belt of a knight engrailed, wavy lines - honor obtained with difficulty
Gules, red belt - courage
Marlets - the 3 birds in sable color are footless. Coat of arms granted to younger son who owned neither land nor money.
Sable color [black] - antiquity of lineage
Mascles - between wavy lines, meshes of net because of rights granted to fish in King's streams. Color - gold - goodness.
Bordure - additional honor, color - red
Coins outside of square - member of Crusades and ransomed.
Wolf's head: light blue - truth and fidelity. Head torn from body - strength as opposed to skill.
Five dots on wolf's neck - Crusade service."

Much of this description matches Ronald Payne's (above), but I thought it would be good to add credance to his lone crest on a page filled with lions argent.

If you come accross any other Paine/Payne Coats of Arms please e'mail me
genealogy@paine.org