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Jameson Riley
McShane Johnson
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Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 10th February
2006. Registration No.
00022.
Arms:
Vert a lion
rampant Or armed and
langued Gules, grasping
in the dexter claw a
lightning flash in bend
sinister Argent, point
to base; on a chief
embattled of the last, a
rose Gules seeded Or,
barbed Vert between two
bombs Gules, fired on
four points
proper. Placed on
the shield, a cap of
maintenance Gules,
doubled ermine
proper.
Crest:
Seated on a helm wreath
of the colours, a castle
Argent ensigned with a
trefoil Vert pendant
from its slip a droplet
of blood, in the castle
portal a pen nib erect
Or point to base.
Suporters: Dexter;
a wolf proper, Sinister;
a raven proper.
Motto:
Anticipate
Registration:
Bureau of Heraldry,
South Africa, 26 July,
2004 #3444
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Assumed:
Arms assumed 1995, Ft.
Benning, Georgia.
Further
Registration:
American College of
Heraldry, June
1996 #1391
Further Certification:
The Cronista Rey de
Armas, 17 January
2001 Folio #133-136
The
arms herein are taken in
style from the original
O’Neill arms granted to
Conn Bacach O’Neill in
1542 when he became the
1st Earl of Tyrone. His
four quarters included
aspects of the ancient
battle flag of Ulster,
and these arms originate
from that quarter. The
family maintains that
the originator of the
sept is Conn Bacach’s
son, Shane an Diomas
O'Neill, The O'Neill Mor
1558-1567. It was from
his collective group of
sons that the surname
"MacShane" came about
circa 1585.
The armiger's line
descended from Shane's
son Conn MacShane, Lord
of Clabby, to his son
Hugh McShane O'Neill of
Killetragh and
Glenconkeyne, Ireland.
This Hugh was pardoned
and granted lands in
1608 for his part in
O'Dogherty's Rebellion
living out his life in
Glenconkeyne and as
Chief of the
MacShane-O’Neills
The family supported the
Jacobites in Ireland and
following the departure
of King James II in 1692
to France, the family
was attainted and
evolved their surname
from O'Neill to that of
just McShane. The name
McShane was kept as the
surname until 1796 and
used alternatively with
“Johnson” until 1839
when John McShane
immigrated to the United
States and, like his
cousin the
McShane-O'Neill baronet,
Johnson of New York,
permanently anglicized
the name from the Irish
Mac Shane or "son of
John" to Johnson.
Lt. Colonel Johnson
holds a BA from The
Citadel Military
College, an MA from
Princeton University,
and graduate diplomas
from Harvard University
and Virginia
Polytechnique. He is
married to the former
Kathleen Eleanor
Henninger von Eberg, and
they have four children.
The armiger is head of
the family, holding the
lands named “Tyrone” in
the UK, and is pleased
to hold a share of the
family’s ancestral manor
house, lands and estate
of Carnamoney in Co.
Londonderry. He also has
ownership of a
commercial hop ranch in
Montana. He heads the
Clan McShane Society and
is a member of the
Cavalry Club, the Loyal
Legion, the Order of St.
John, The Montana Club,
and the Veteran Corps of
Artillery.
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4th Cavalry
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