Where can I find the McMaster Family Crest and/or the Coat of Arms?

Question

Where can I find the McMaster Family Crest and/or the Coat of Arms?

Answer 1

There is no such thing as a family crest. A crest is part of a coat of arms. Coats of arms do not belong to surnames.

See the links under sources.  One is regarding Irish heraldry, the other regarding Scottish heraldy.  One is from the British College of Arms(they grant coats of arms) and the other is from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U.S., The National Genealogical Society.

Coats of Arms were and are granted to individual men and are passed down through the direct legitimate male line of descent.  Only the oldest son is entitled to his father's and it goes from oldest son to oldest son.  The other sons are entitled to one with some differences.

Also, there might have been more than one individual named McMaster that were granted their own coat of arms, all different.  No one peddler that sells them on the internet, at shopping malls, in airports, in magazines will have all of them. They don't need to in order to sell.

If you did not receive one from your father and you feel that you are entitled to one and it has been lost down through the centuries, submit your family tree to the heraldry authority of the country involved and they will check to see if you are entitled to a coat of arms. That is the only way you could obtain a valid coat of arms belonging to you..  You cannot do that by buying walnut plaques with a coat of arms mounted on it from a surname product peddler.

Answer 2

The Google images are from the McMaster's academy. The images that 4Crests and house of Names are selling as the McMaster coat of arms is actually the Masterson Coat of Arms. In the records there is recorded only a crest for McMaster also in the General Armory there is a crest only described for the Master family of Ireland. The records show substantially the same crest for Master and McMaster but with different mottos.

Master: (Ireland) out of a mural coronet or a unicorn's head argent, armed and crined gules.

Motto: Non minor est virtus quam quaerere parta tueri - No less virtue is required to maintain, than to seek.

McMaster: (Ireland to New Zealand): Issuing out of a coronet a unicorn's head. Motto: Medio tutus.

I combined the Masterson coat of arms and placed the Master/McMaster crest on the top above the helmet and posted the picture here: http://www.rushings.info/images/mcmaster... just so you could see what both looked like. Hope it helps.

I'm sure someone will post that there is no such thing as a family crest or a family coat of arms. They don't want you to get ripped off by the sellers of such nonsense as crest tea-cups and tee shirts.

Answer 3

yep yep, google fo sho

Answer 4

google

Answer 5

McMaster is a sept of the Clan Buchanan and Clan McInnes ( Scottish Clan and Family Encyclopedia -Glasgow 1998 ) The Buchanans from Loch Lomondside and Stirlingshire . Arms show a lion argent as does the crest . Motto " we have been "

Answer 6

I jus ttyped it in google images and some came up.