Malbon Family

The Malbon Family are descendants of William Malbank, First Baron of Nantwich. He arrived in Britain with Hugh Lupus in 1069 and was made one of the eight barons of the palatine county of Cheshire, gaining lands across southern Cheshire and northern Shropshire. Specifically, as the Third Baron of Nantwich had no male heirs, the Malbons descend from Philip Malbank, the younger son of the Second Baron. The family as firmly established in Cheshire, but a later major branch moved to Staffordshire before various Malbons spread around the country and colonies.

The name is derived from the French words "mal" (bad) and "blanc" (white) and was used to mean someone of a dirty white complexion or, ironically, someone with a dark complexion.

Aims

As nearly everyone of Malbon descent is related and Barbara Lynch has researched every single branch it should be possible to link every family tree and bring them together in this project.

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Coat of Arms

The earliest known coat of arms for the Barons of Wich Malbank has the blazon: "quarterly, Or and Gules, a bendlet Sable" (Lynch, page 284). See also this page on Cheshire Heraldry.

It's influence can be found on the following coats of arms for related families:

• Vernon of Shipbroke
• Bostock of Bostock
• Bostock of Moulton
• Bostock of Churton
• Savage of Clifton
• Savage of Rock Savage

And organisations within their former area of control:

• Nantwich Town Council
• Malbank School and Sixth Form College in Nantwich
• Nantwich Town FC, without the bendlet
• The borough of Crewe and Nantwich (which existed between 1974 and 2009), without bendlet
• Connah's Quay Town Council, specifically the sail of the heraldic ship in the shield
• Connah's Quay High School, whose badge uses the shield from the town council, seen most clearly on their Twitter account
• Connah's Quay Nomads FC, local football club using the heraldic ship as their badge

The project's coat of arms was created using the Uplink Heraldry Generator. The two versions of the shield were made using Drawshield with the default and vibrant settings.

There have been other variations over the years:

• Thomas Malbon of Bradley Hall (d. 1658) had a coat of arms described as "Or, two bendlets componé Argent and Gules." with the shield decorated with a "crest, an oak stump couped [cut off], with branches, leaves and acorns (Lynch, page 284).
• George Malbon, vicar of Uttoxeter (d.1768) had a coat of arms that was a variation on the Malbons of Bradley Hall: "or, two bendlets gobony or and azure, with azure a cross potent or in pretence" (Lynch, page 286).
• Samuel Malbon (d. 1791) the apothecary of Oxford had a coat of arms that was a single embattled silver bend on a azure background with a crescent in the upper right corner (Lynch, page 287).

NB: A similar blazon seems to be used by the Beauchamps of Bedford - see here and here (although it specifies a bend not a bendlet).

Resources

• Malbon at the Guild of One Name Studies
• Malbon on Wikipedia
• The Malbons – A Local Family by Barbara Lynch, BBC Stoke & Staffordshire, 13 November 2014
• Malbon on Find a Grave

Books

• Hall, James (1883). A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich, or Wich Malbank, in the County Palatine of Chester.
• Lynch, Barbara (2005). The Malbons: Eight Hundred Years of Family History. Fernleigh Publications. ISBN 0973884401.