SRC-2026-067

Sir Bernard Burke — The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales (London: Harrison, 1884), page 351 (leaf 495) — the canonical ENGLISH heraldic register read at the surname FISH: four entries (Fish of The Height, co. York; Fish of Kempton Park, co. Middlesex; Fish of Coventry; Fish of Lissameon, co. Cavan, bart. extinct). NEGATIVE FINDING ON GEOGRAPHY: no Fish entry at Somerset, Bristol or the West Country, which is where the family's own lineage document places House Fish. No arms claim is promoted; the family-handoff rule at QUEUED section 11.11 governs and is not touched by this reading

Tier
T2-primary (canonical armorial at primary-source citation depth; page image preserved and read directly)
Received
2026-08-24
Carrier
R1 — Within-session engagement at the Internet Archive copy of Burke's General Armory (item generalarmoryofe00burk). Full-text OCR search endpoint at ia800502.us.archive.org/fulltext/inside.php to locate the leaf, then the IIIF image API at https://iiif.archive.org/image/iiif/2/generalarmoryofe00burk%2fgeneralarmoryofe00burk_jp2.zip%2fgeneralarmoryofe00burk_jp2%2fgeneralarmoryofe00burk_0495.jp2/full/full/0/default.jpg and the page READ. This is the record's FIRST engagement at an English armorial; every prior armorial engagement was Continental (Rietstap, Siebmacher)
Families
fish
Gap it serves
QUEUED_INSIGHT_ATLAS section 11.11 Fish Phase 0 (opened S30 at the G1 union card); the CLM-ARM-FISH placeholder at 01-engagement section 8.1 stays a placeholder
In the store
1 page image(s) · 0 original(s)

Chain of custody

  1. origin: Sir Bernard Burke (1814-1892), Ulster King of Arms — The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, 1884; the standard English-language armorial. Public domain by age
  2. method: The surname FISH cannot be searched directly at this register — 'fish' is also a common charge, and the query returns the whole book. The leaf was located instead by the rare neighbouring headword FISHACRE (4 matches, all at leaf 495), then the page image was pulled and read. The four Fish headwords sit in the right-hand column between Fiscoke and Fishacre
  3. intermediary: One JPEG page image preserved in this item at file-register: leaf 495 (page 351, FIN -> FIS) 1,257,485 bytes sha256 2f40451cd03b7458

The engagement record for this source (what was read, by whom, what it settled and what it left open) is kept in the record's repository as SRC-2026-067/source.md; this page carries what the register states about the source. All sources.