The Breese Family Crest

Sidney Breese, born at or near Shrewsbury, county Salop, England, belonged to the English Navy as a Purser, and is known to have settled in New York as early as 1733-34. His father was a merchant of Shropshire, and his grandfather a rector in Wales. That brings the family back to the middle of the XVII. century, and to that very portion of Great Britain from whence sprung the well-known family of Ap-Rice, or Ap-Rhys, from which the Breese family may have branched off, as the arms it bears-since the first colonist's time-are the arms attributed by Burke to the Ap-Rice family of Wales. A seal, in possession of the above Sidney Breese, reproduced the crest we give. The Breeze, or Brees, arms in Burke are totally different.

Family

Breese

Blazon

A Boar's Head, Erect, Argent, Pelletée, Between Two Oak Branches, Vert, Fructed, Or.

Source

America Hereldica