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The musician John Ella's personal coat-of-arms (black and white image of original coloured one):

The musician John Ella's personal coat-of-arms (black and white image of original coloured one):

Blazon with tinctures/colours is:
"Per Saltire Or (gold) and Gules (red) 4 crescents counterchanged". It was also attributed to the South-Saxon (Sussex) King and first Bretwalda named Ella (Aelle and Aella in modern printed history books) but the crest (lion and helmet) would not have been used). Motto is "Jyst Sam Foyle/Fayle".

Picture courtesy of the Ella family.

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