The Champernon Family Crest

Captain Francis Champernon, the emigrant to New England, who settled at Kittery, Portsmouth, and York (o. 1686), was grandson of Gawine Champernowne, Esquire, of Dartington, county Devon, a descendant of the Champernownes of Clist Champernowne, county Devon, and Modbury, same county. He was related to Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who had grant of the first patent for planting an English colony in America, and who first set up the English colors, in evidence of sovereignty, at St. Johns, Newfoundland.

Family

Champernon

Blazon

A Swan, Sitting: Proper-Holding In Its Beak A Horseshoe, Or.

Source

America Hereldica