Pine-Coffin Family

This is the complete family Coat of Arms.

The shield in the top left is the Coffin shield, the rest are marriages to other families with their Shields.

The crosslets were given after the family took part in all of the Crusades, and the discs are to symbolise the money used there at the time.

Above the shield, the Martlett is for the Coffin family and the Tree is for the Pyne family after a Coffin girl married a Rev Pyne in the late 1700s. At the time the English Law forbade a female inheriting and everything went to the husband. They decided to join the family names because of that ruling and in doing so created our very memorable family name.

Below is a representation of Portledge, in the Parish of Alwington, near Bideford, Devon, UK.
It had been in the family since 1087 from settlement of the estates by Domesday, and was granted to
Sir Richard Coffin, Knight, for valuable services rendered to William the Conqueror.
(See also One Man's Boer War)