Joy Coat of Arms & Family Crest - Symbols, Bearers, History

Joy “Family Crest” or Coat of Arms - Family History & Surname
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1) Joye of Benefield, co. Northampton - granted in 1738 to James Joye of St. Dunstan’s-in-the-East, London and Benefield, co. Northampton, Sheriff - Or, on a chevron between three vine-leaves vert, five guttees d’eau. Crest: A trunk of a vine with two branches, thereon a dove standing, all proper.
2) Joy of Hartham Park, co. Wiltshire - purchased by Michael Joy before 1816, an exile from North America in the aftermath of the American Revolution due to his sympathies for the British Government, had son Henry Hall Joy (d. 1840) - Or, on a chevron between three vines vert, five guttes d’eau. Crest: Out of a ducal coronet or, a plume of five feathers argent. Motto: Vive la joye.
3) Joy of London - Or, a chevron vert, guttee argent, between three vine leaves of the second. Crest: A falcon standing on a cinquefoil between two vine branches, all proper.
Note: There was a John Joy of London, had daughter Joice Joy who married Walter Noel in 1680
4) Joye of West Kington, co. Wiltshire - There was George Joy of West Kington, married Susan Hyde (born 1574), author and translator - Argent a lion rampant gules. Crest: A lion rampant argent supporting a ragged staff or.
5) Joy of Worcestershire - found in a heraldic manuscript compiled in the later half of the 17th century - Gules on a bend engrailed or three roses of the field.
6) Vert a lion rampant surmounted by a fesse gules. Crest: A demi lion rampant. Motto: Pro patria ejusque.
7) Joy of Ireland - Azure a chevron gules between three fleur-de-lis, in chief, argent and a demi lion rampant in base, of the last. Crest: A hand holding an arrow, point downwards.
not stated, likely that of the following family:
Henry Joy (1766-1838), Irish judge who was appointed Solicitor General, Attorney General, and Chief Baron of the Exchequer, son of Henry Joy (1720-1789), joint owner of a newspaper with his brother Robert Joy (1722-1785), printer, manufacturer, and benefactor, son of Francis Joy, notary, printer, paper manufacturer, son of Richard Joy, a prosperous Presbyterian farmer, possibly a descendant of Captain Thomas Joy, a follower of Arthur Chichester, Baron Chichester
8) Joye or Joyer - Per pale azure and gules an eagle displayed argent membered or.
9) Guy Joye (fl. 1696) lawyer on the council of Artois and alderman of the town of Béthune - De sinople, à un chef d'or chargé d'une molette de sable.
10) Francois la Joye, merchant (fl. 1696)
11) Gille la Joye (fl. 1696)
NOTABLES:
William Joy (fl. 1310-1346), master mason
David Joy (1825-1903), engineer and inventor, one of the five sons of Edward Joy, oil-mill owner of Leeds
John Joy (fl. 1673), Captain in the Royal Navy
Christopher Joy of Bishop Thornton, had daughter Grace (d. 1790)
Henry Joye of Bedelow, had daughter Margaret who married into the Pigott family
Richard Joye of Farnham, married Elizabeth Vachell