The various Coats of Arms granted to specific members of RIGG and RIGGE families bear no similarity to those relating to RIGGS. But nine out of the ten have elements in common with each other, either their Crest and/or Motto, or the charges employed on the shields.

The exception - RIGGE of Lancashire - is an Achievement which was not originally granted to a RIGG or RIGGE family, but was "inherited" through marriage. And it is no longer borne by such a family, a subsequent RIGGE in line of succession having changed his family name to GRAYRIGGE.

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Fox-Davies[S6] ascribes this Coat of Arms to "Gibson Sagar Rigg, Gentleman; Postal Address Motley Bank, Bowdon, Cheshire", and also to "William Robinson Rigg, Gentleman; Postal Address Turton Towers, Turton, Lancashire". The original Fairbairn editions[S4] ascribes the Crest and Motto to the same persons (omitting the description "Gentleman").

The facsimile reprint of Burke[S3] ascribes this Coat of Arms to "RIGG (co.Cumberland)" without giving further details. Burke's original edition[S2], however, ascribes the Arms and Crest to "RIGGE" without giving further details, and also ascribes the Arms alone to "RIGG (Cumberland)". The revised edition of Fairbairn[S5] attributes the Crest to "RIGGE (England)".

The facsimile reprint of Burke[S3] ascribes this Coat of Arms to "RIGG (Chorlton-on-Medlock, co. Lancaster, 1875)". The original Fairbairn editions[S4] ascribe the Crest and Motto to "Rigg of Chorlton-on-Medlock, Lancs.".

The facsimile reprint of Burke[S3] ascribes this Coat of Arms to "RIGG (Dounfield, co.Fife, 1750)". The original Fairbairn editions[S4] ascribes the Crest and Motto to "Rigg of Dounfield, Fifesh. and Rigsland, Scotland" (see below).

The facsimile reprint of Burke[S3] ascribes these Arms to "RIGG (Carbery, co.Edinburgh)", but care needs to be taken because of the conflicting description contained in the original edition of Burke's work, as quoted in the following section.

Burke's original edition[S2] ascribes these Arms to "RIG (Carbery, Scotland; Pont's MS)", but care needs to be taken because of the conflicting description contained in the facsimile reprint of Burke's work, as quoted in the previous section.

Burke's original edition[S2] ascribes this Coat of Arms to "RIG (Rigsland, Scotland); Lion Register". The facsimile reprint of Burke[S3] ascribes it to "RIGG (Rigsland, afterwards Morton, Scotland)". The original Fairbairn editions[S4] ascribes the Crest and Motto to "Rigg of Dounfield, Fifesh. and Rigsland, Scotland" (see above)

Both the original Fairbairn editions[S4] and the revised edition[S5] ascribe the Crest and Motto to "Herbert Addington Rigg, Wallhurst Manor, Cowfold, Horsham". Fox-Davies[S6] ascribes a slightly different Crest but the same Motto to him, as well as the Arms which are shown, with the following comment: "This achievement is almost identical with that of Rig of Rigsland, but no connection whatsoever has been established with this family."

Fox-Davies[S6] also adds that Herbert Addington Rigg, a barrister and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, who was born 7MCH1845, was the second son of the late Jonathan RIGG, Esq, Justice of the Peace and Deputy-Lieutenant, of Wrotham Hill Park in Kent.

Burke ascribes these Arms to "RIGGE (Lincolnshire)"[S2] / "RIGGE (co. Lincoln)"[S3].

Burke's original edition[S2] ascribes this Coat of Arms to the surname "RIGG" without giving further details.

The original Fairbairn editions[S4] ascribes this Crest and Motto to "Rig of Scotland", without giving further details, whilst the revised edition merely ascribes them to "Rigg".

The revised Fairbairn edition[S4] ascribes this Crest and Motto to "Rigg" generally, without giving further details (it is not included in the original editions). But Fox-Davies[S6] ascribes it to Herbert Addington Rigg (see the section on RIGG, of Sussex, above).

The original Fairbairn editions[S4] ascribe this Crest to "Rigg" generally, without giving further details, but the revised edition[S5] ascribes it to "RIGG (England)".

The original Fairbairn editions[S4] ascribes the Crest and Motto to "Rigge of Wood Broughton, Cartmel, Lancs." The later Burke work[S3] ascribes the Coat of Arms to "RIGGE (Wood Broughton, Cartmel, co,Lancaster)", but his earlier work[S2] adds far more detail:-
"Representing the old Lancashire family of RAWLINSON of Greenhead. William Rawlinson married the heiress of CURWEN of Mireside, and their son and heir inherited, beside his paternal property, that of the Curwens, the whole of which eventually passed to his (two) daughters and co-heirs ... the daughter and heiress of the latter married Clement RIGGE of Hawkeshead (sic), and their son and heir Roger RIGGE married the daughter of FLETCHER of Wood Broughton".

The various editions of Burke's Landed Gentry document the subsequent lineage of this family, and the later editions[S3] list the entry under "Grayrigge of Wood Broughton". They identify Roger as the youngest son of Clement RIGGE of Hawkshead, "where his family had been seated for many generations" (see the comments on the possible origins of THOMAS OF GLOUCESTER), and quote Roger's marriage as occurring in 1736. Roger's great-grandson Henry Fletcher RIGGE was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1870 and his son Gray RIGGE "assumed in 1875 the surname of GRAYRIGGE in lieu of his patronymic". Grayrigge's son and grandson are both described as "Lord of the Manors of Lindale and Hampsfield".