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Question: I want to find the meanings of our "coat of arms" that my father stated was our family's!.!.!.!?
the problem is, we have a common last name and anytime I go online to find out anything about it!.!.!.I come up with 50 different coat of arms but none that looks the same!. I understand the concept that its not a "family" thing but our family is from Wales originally and I'm just looking for a bit more information!. If anyone can help me out,!.!.!.it would be great!. I'm more curious than anything!. I know little of my family and if I could somehow trace it back!.!.!.I would like to!.
He found the c!.o!.a once while he was out in Las Vegas but we've never been able to find it since!. Or at least can someone tell me what this means:
"duw a doarpar ir brain"
it has 1 large raven on the top and 3 smaller ones on the crest itself!. I just want a bit of background on it!. that's all!.
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According to pages 43-44 of a book, available on Google Books, called "Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales", in the 1870s this was the coat of arms of William Bulkeley Hughes of Plas Coch in Anglesey!. The shield is described as silver (or white, which in heraldry is the same thing), with an ermine chevron between three naturally coloured Cornish choughs (the chough is a bird very like a crow), and the crest as another chough!. The motto is spelt "Duw a ddarpar ir brain", meaning "God provides for the crows/ravens!." Www@QuestionHome@Com
Those coats of arms are just money-making scams!. If your family had a coat of arms, it's almost guaranteed you'd know where it was and have an idea of what it meant!.
Regular serfs and peasants and the like didn't have coats of arms, and chances are (especially with a very common last name) that you were one of 'em!
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Coats of arms do not belong to surnames!. They were and are granted to an individual man!. Only his direct legitimate male line descendants can make claim!. When he is granted one, all sons also can be granted a coat of arms with some differences!. Only the oldest son inherits his father's upon father's death!. This means there can be more than one associated with a particular surname!.
also, there were frequently more than one man with the same surname, not all necessarily related, that were each granted their own coat of arms, all different!. The peddlers who sell them on the internet, at airports, in shopping malls, in magazines etc will not have all of them!. They don't need to in order to sell to gullible people!.
The only time they will have more than one associated with a surname is if more than one person with the same surname from different national origins were granted one!. Then they will have one of each and there might have been others!. Most people with that particular surname will not be entitled to a coat of arms at all!.
Real coats of arms do not have a surname over, under or across the coat of arms!. Frequently, they are copies of real coats of arms but what isn't valid is they make it sound like they belong to everyone with a particular surname and they don't!.
See the link below from the British College of Arms!.
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