The badge comprised of the fitch cross is a device and no more than that. The family did not hold the right to have a coat of arms and was not 'armigerous'. We did not have the trappings of aristocracy but more about that at a later date.
The badge is based on a ‘fitch’ cross with the fitch being the sharpened point at the base. The choice of ‘fitch’ is a pun in the same way that the “Wiggin Tree” is a pun on ‘Wigan’.
Aristocratic origins are not evident for the ancestors although we can celebrate their very real origins whilst also allowing them the same dignity that other genealogies afford their own ancestors.
I would really like the different Finch families from Lancashire to use the 'fitch cross' as a symbol of our often shared ancestry.
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