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Gwenneth
Lucille Treen, U.E, is
the second daughter of
the late Lewis Earl
Treen, U.E, sometime
Royal Canadian Army
Service Corps
[1942-1945], by his wife
Bertha Mae, dau. of
William M. Lambert; and
being descendant of
Joseph Treen, United
Empire Loyalist
[1744-1833], sometime
Westchester Chasseurs
[1777]. By Ron Schwieger
has issue: Robert
Gerhard Braun, U.E.
Married 1972 Robin Bruce
Mackie, Esq. (q.v), now
of Carrickbraith, and by
him has further issue:
Christopher Stirling
Treen Mackie, U.E,
barrister-at-law &
late A/SLt R.C.N.
The armiger’s Treen
forefathers hailed from
Land’s End, Cornwall. It
is believed that they
originated in the nearby
village of Treen (also
Treryn, Trethyn). The
name derives from
Cornish words meaning a
‘fortified settlement’.
Fittingly, next to the
village of Treen is an
Iron-Age promontory
hillfort, Treen Dinas,
from which the village
takes its name. Locals
know the fort as, ‘The
Giant’s Castle’, after a
legend that a
necromantic ogre created
the place.
There are surnames in
Cornwall and Wales that
are homophonous with
Treen and that have arms
associated with them,
e.g. Sir John Trewyn:
Az. a chevron Arg. betw.
three trees eradicated
Or [vide Glover’s
Ordinary]; and the Manor
of Trewyn: Az, a chevron
betw. three oak trees
eradicated Or [vide
Burke's General Armory].
These arms likely use
trees as an English
allusion to the surname
and suggested the use of
trees in Ms Treen's
arms.
Accordingly, her crest
is also a tree.
Furthermore, an oak tree
appears as the central
charge in the arms of
the principal Lambert
family in England (viz.
the baronets Lambert, of
London: Arg. on a mount
an oak tree Vt, and a
greyhound courant Gu).
And the armiger’s mother
bore this same surname.
The lily (a symbol of
Saint Joseph) denotes Ms
Treen’s Loyalist
forefather, whose
Christian name was
Joseph. And a Loyalist
military coronet
surrounds the whole, in
recognition of Joseph’s
service with the élite
Westchester Chasseurs,
also known as,
'DeLancey’s Cow-boys'
(from their additional
duty of raiding for
cattle and other
supplies to support
Loyalist forces in New
York City). While
serving as a ‘Cow-boy’,
Joseph suffered a sabre
cut to the head in an
engagement on 30 October
1777 (probably at
‘Williams’ House’,
Westchester), and was
taken prisoner. After
his eventual release he
received from the
British Crown a grant of
500 acres in Cumberland
County, Nova Scotia, in
recognition of his
service. Curiously,
Joseph’s brother was
William Treen, a famous
privateer for the
American rebels.
The slogan above the
crest means, “for the
king!”, and expresses
the Loyalist sentiment
of Joseph, rendered in
Cornish in remembrance
of his heritage.
The other Trewyn arms
also inspired the use of
the division per chevron
in Ms Treen's shield.
But here the chevron
shape is embattled to
signify a ‘fortified
settlement’ – the
chevron suggesting the
eaves of a settlement;
and the embattling, its
fortification.
The tinctures of the
shield are those of the
Royal Arms of
Saskatchewan, in which
province the armiger was
born and raised. In the
base of her arms, a
golden garb on a green
field also recalls the
arms of Saskatchewan.
Additionally, Cumberland
County (where Joseph
refuged) employs a
yellow wheat sheaf as
the central element in
its municipal symbol.
Finally, the armiger’s
given name originates
with the Cornish word
gwaneth, meaning wheat.
Ms Treen’s motto, FROM
FAMILY, STRENGTH,
recalls the loving
emphasis she and her
mother place on family.
It also echoes the royal
motto of Saskatchewan,
MULTIS E GENTIBUS VIRES.
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