They had only two girls and no boys. He is the maternal grandfather of 1240 “A hand-painted copy of this coat-of-arms has been in my family’s possession for over 150 years.  It was passed from great-grandparents on my mother’s side to their son, my mother’s grandfather.  On the back is a handwritten short version of the reason for the awarding of the crest, dated October 6, 1540.  I saw the framed copy as a child, at an age when my reading preference was tales of knights and chivalry. A copy of this coat-of-arms was passed by Robert Manning and Alice Taylor to their son John in the 1870s.  Walter Manning was my mother’s grandfather.  None of us living now know why we have a coat-of-arms dated 1540, yet no one by the name Moody as a relative. Christopher Egolf was last known to have possession of the copy of the Moody Crest, which he inherited from his parents who died over a decade ago. .”1240