Chowning Family Genealogy Forum
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In reply to:
Chowning research and website
Judith Voran 3/25/06
I'm doing some research on my family history.Apparently we are related to Sarah "Sally" Chowning who is a great great great great granddaugther to George Chowning.Any way's as I was researching I saw your notes and I don't know if any information I have would be of help as I'm still trying to organize what I do have, but after seeing your notes and what I've included below, I thought it couldn't hurt to pass it along.The orginial research was done in 1972 by Jim, Diane, and Jill Mardis of Ohio, relatives of Dillard Vernon Mardis a great great great grandson of Sarah Chowning.
In the packet that I have, there is information from a source of "Van Hook & Allied Families, pg 213-233, by Bernice Hubbard Keister."
---The Chowning Coat Armor was confirmed to Reginald C Chowning in the County of Kent, by Segar, the Herald of the College of Arms in 1623.The family possessed Coat Armor prior to the establishment of the College of Arms, as the above was a confirmation, not a grat.The Chowning Coat Armour is as follows:
Arms: Vert, an eagle displayed argent armed gules.
Crest: An eagle displayed argent armed gules.
Motto: Unlike Scotland, but like France.
The Manor of Chewning is in the hundred of Godsheath in the County of Kent.Beside the principal Manor of Chowning, there appears to have been another Manor of Chowning, subordinate to the first, in the same parish.Adam de Chowning, of Norman descent (as were all the Chownings of the British Isles), one of the Jostices of the Great Assize in the reign of King John (1199-1216), possessed this manor in the next reign of King Henry III (1216-1272) and resided here.His descendent, William de Chowning, held it in the 20th year of reign of the King Edward III (1346-7) when he paid respective aid for it, as half a knight's fee, at the making of the Black Price a knight.The family Chowning was succeeded in possession of the manor soon afterwards by the family De la Pole.
-by Edward Halted of Canterbury, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.-----
I typed it exactly as it is on my sheet, I hope this information helps.