The Roberdeau Family Crest

Isaac Roberdeau, a Huguenot refugee, fled from La Rochelle, France, shortly after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), and reached the Island of St. Kitts in the West Indies. He married a Miss Mary Cuningham, of old Scotch parentage, and settled, later, in the New Jersey colony. The arms we reproduce were engraved on a piece of plate, bearing a hall-mark of 1699, and brought over by, the emigrant to this country. The general MS. French Armorial of Dy Hosier gives other arms to the Roberdeaux it men tions. However, as the work was begun in 1696 only, and does not contain any family whose chief left France for religious causes, this non-insertion does not throw any serious doubts on the noble origin of the descendants of Isaac Roberdeau.

Family

Roberdeau

Motto

Ne cede malis.Yield not to misfortunes.

Blazon

A Demi-Greyhound, Rampant: Proper

Source

America Hereldica