Slade

SLADE

Origins
The English surname Slade is Toponymic in origin, belonging to the that group of surnames derived from the place where the original bearer once dwelt held land. In this case the surname can be traced back to the Old English word “slaed” meaning a “vale,” and the original bearer would thus have been “oe who dwelt in the vale” or “in the valley.” The word “slaed” can be found at the root of several village names throughout England and Wales, generally in southern counties, thus in some case the surname indicates “one from the village of Slade.” The surname is chiefly encountered today in the Counties of Devon and Somerset, where bearer most probably trace their roots in Slade near Ilfracombe and Slade near Honiton.

Coats of Arms
Colonel Frederick George Slade, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. Born 1851 being the second son of Lieutenant–General Marcus John Slade, by his wife Charlotte, daughter of Andrew Ramsey; created Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 1893 and has also the fourth class of the Turkish Orders of Osannieh and Medjidic, Club – United Service. Armorial boarings-He bears for Arms: Party per fesse argent and sable, a pale counterchanged and three horses heads erased of the second, on a chief ermine, two bombs fired proper. Upon the escutcheon from which is pendent him badge as a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath and his badges of Osmanieh and Medjidie, is placed a helmet befitting his degree, with a mantling sable and argent: and for his Crest, upon a wreath of the colours, on a mount vert, a horse’s head erased sable, within a chain in arch gold.

Links: Henry Slade (1862)│Henry John Slade (1836)│Elizabeth Slade nee White (1837)│John Slade (1797)│Ann Slade nee Mason (1805)

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