Sproule family

Arms of Sproule

Blazon  

Shield: Or a fess chequey Azure and Argent between three purses Gules.

Crest: A book displayed with seals all Proper.

Motto: Manet in Æternum.

The Sproule family, for which there are many spelling variants (e.g. Spreull, Spruell, Sproul, Sprouls, Sproule, Sproules, Sprouel, Sprol, Sprul, Spruls, Sprouell, Sproulle, Sprowl, Sprowls, Sprowel, Sprowels, Sproll, Sproal), is an old Scottish Dumbartonshire family descending from the 13th century Walter Spreull, Laird of Cowden, who was Seneschal to the Earl of Lennox.

Family members included:

George Sproule (c.1743-1817), or Spreule, a British officer serving in the North American colonies who went on to become the first Surveyer-General of New Brunswick. Two of his daughters married Swansea gentlemen and became the mistresses of Veranda House, Singleton: Constance, widow of Rawleigh Mansel, married Calvert Richard Jones Sr., and 22 years later her sister Elizabeth married William Ireland Jones, uncle of Sarah Vivian of Singleton.

Sources

• Burke, Bernard, Sir, 1814-1892. The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. London: 1884, page 956.
• Fellowes, Robert. ‘Sproule (Sprowle), George’. In Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. 5. University of Toronto/Université Laval, 1983.
• The Sproul Project [website]