At her website, Mascha published two pictures of the Coat of Arms as shown above.
Mascha van Dort's manages a dedicated website for the genealogy of the families Van Dort. She has one section that provides the various Coat of Arms for 8 different families.
The patriarch, Cornelis Jansz Van Dort for the Sri Lankan family Van Dort had the
"shield and motto - Tree standing in sea, with a star on top. The motto means "We hope for better". According to David Van Dort the coat of arms is simular of that of the VOC coat of arms for the province in which the early Sri Lankan Van Dorts lived. The VOC divided the country in different provinces and each province had a coat of arms. The VOC coat of arms contains the tree and the sea. Another explanation is that appel tree from Holland with a star from the East. Drawn after the 'Arms, Armorial Bearings of the Dutch period in Ceylon by J.L. Kalenberg Van Dort, Colombo Ceylon 1889, as part of a typed genealogy after van Altendorff."
Keeping the integrity of the Coat of Arms, we have included the Malaysian flag alongside it to connote the Malaysian family of Van Dort. The coloured Coat of Arms was chosen for obvious reason.
It adorns the left side bar beneath the title of this Blog.
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