Wax Seals From Holland

My advise here is two send the two wax seal images into various inernet coat of arms web sites to see if anyone can identify them. I would need the full name of your Moorrees as plenty are in Bovenkarspel. Send me an email and I'll try to help you further.

yes, as I thought, this is a family crest, and those are 'Maures' (african heads). These are the Moorrees crest,the family motto is Absque labore nihil (Nothing without work)
http://www.myheritage.nl/photo-97_1...familiewapen

Wow, this is amazing! Thank you so much for your help with this!
Is there a way to find out what the African heads mean? And the fruit? The fish make sense, as the family lived in a fishin community.
This is all such great information, and having the motto too is a great bonus!

Wait- I get it. I showed this to an uncle of mine and according to him, the Moorrees family, along with many Dutch traders back then, were big in the slave trade market. That would make sense. So having six African heads - is that significant?

No, it seems these are lillies (flowers). The moor heads (as far as I know) first appeared in Spanish heraldry (in Aragonia) and refers to the ,Reqonquista' (reconquest of Spain from the invader - the Moors).
Here is a detailed description of the coat of arm, unfortunately only in dutch.
Founder: Pieter Moorrees, born in Nijmegen in 1546, later became mayor of the city.
http://www.wazamar.org/Familiewapen...wpn/hs-4.htm
Colours - first field green (groen), lillies silver (zilver),
field 2-3 gold (goud)
field 4 silver

So this is to assume that the Moorrees family descended from the Moors that invaded Spain for 500+ years? I'm enjoying every bit of this, and am copying and pasting this info to print for our Oma. She can read it in Dutch, and I can roughly translate it too.

Sarahstepp, if you Google "Moorrees", one of the items that comes up is Moorreesburg, a town in South Africa, at one time a Dutch colony! I would suggest you read some of that. Most of that is in English. If you would like a translation of the article Wadmalatz is referring to, I would be happy to do that for you. Let me know,

Peter

I will research that as well - thank you! The colony could have been started by a brother of my greatx4 grandfather, as the time lines up, and I did find quite a bit of correlation between Moorrees and the town of Bovenkarspel, where Oma said they lived in Holland.