sentences:  The family's prospects improved after the Catholic Emancipation, and in 1841 John Trafford was created a Baronet by Queen Victoria.Sir John later obtained royal licence to change the family name from "Trafford" to "de Trafford", thus restoring it to its original mediaeval form.The arms of the family consist of a red griffin on a silver background, blazoned "argent, a griffin segreant gules".