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10-16-2009, 01:17 PM
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Citizen
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Kent England
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Re: Do you have a family shield?
This is my family Coat of Arms - Dowle an old English name not sure what it means as have been told two different things 1. derives from dullard - means village idiot. 2. description of type of land. Know which one i'd rather believe!
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10-16-2009, 03:28 PM
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Historian
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Eastern PA
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Re: Do you have a family shield?
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Originally Posted by OurBevan
This is my family Coat of Arms - Dowle an old English name not sure what it means as have been told two different things 1. derives from dullard - means village idiot. 2. description of type of land. Know which one i'd rather believe!
http://uk.mg.bt.mail.yahoo.com/ya/do...n =0&inline=1 |
My village has a job opening. 
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10-16-2009, 03:32 PM
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Rakryan Juru Pangambat
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Parahyangan
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Re: Do you have a family shield?
I don't have such thing like family shield, family emblem, family names etc.
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10-16-2009, 08:46 PM
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Seanachaidh
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Alba
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Re: Do you have a family shield?
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10-16-2009, 10:13 PM
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Mister Citizen 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: On a mountain top in Costa Rica. yea...I win!!
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Re: Do you have a family shield?
It's also commonly called a 'coat-of-arms'.
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10-16-2009, 10:16 PM
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Mister Citizen
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: On a mountain top in Costa Rica. yea...I win!!
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Re: Do you have a family shield?
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Originally Posted by OurBevan
1. derives from dullard - means village idiot.
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My village is so small. We have to take being the village idiot. |
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10-16-2009, 10:21 PM
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Historian
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Tennessee
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Re: Do you have a family shield?
Did heraldry begin with the Celts?
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coc...ogy/herald.htm
Perhaps it wasnt heraldry as we know it, but the numbers of colors a person was allowed to wear had a relationship to thier social rank in the society? |
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10-16-2009, 10:37 PM
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Mister Citizen
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: On a mountain top in Costa Rica. yea...I win!!
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Re: Do you have a family shield?
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Originally Posted by Richard Stanbery
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Here be the answer:
http://www.4crests.com/hisandorofco.html
or at least a place to start. |
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10-17-2009, 02:23 AM
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Pythagorean
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chile, Santiago
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Re: Do you have a family shield?
It is interesting to note that heraldic is a very special kind of hieroglyphic or symbolic "writing".
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10-17-2009, 03:34 AM
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the governed self
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 6,856
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Re: Do you have a family shield?
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Originally Posted by Pedro
My village is so small. We have to take being the village idiot.
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Pedro, whose turn was it when you typed that?
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