Family coat of arms.

[Danny McG]

 

[Ursa major]

Two thoughts:

1. Couldn't he have bought something that was merely second-hand?
2. This is what happens if you're the youngest in a very large family: all your clothes are hands-me-down.

 

[Dave]

So, do we know of any science fiction & fantasy coats of arms? (If you Google that, you'll only get this thread!)

Harry Potter has the full achievement for the school itself created from crests of each of the school houses:

and Anhk Morpork has the full achievement too:

Game of Thrones uses crests for each of the family Houses.

 

[Danny McG]

Well there is this one from the Honorverse

And I think I once saw a House Atreides one from Dune

 

[Danny McG]

My surname** could well be an (extreme) anglicisation of the one with the following coat of arms

What? You mean Smith?

 

[Ursa major]

Cursed I am by having such an unusual name....

 

[RJM Corbet]

Ours is supposed to be a raven with elephant and castle, and motto: Deus Pascus Corvus -- God Feeds the Ravens. 'Corbet' is derived from the French Corbeau -- Raven. William the Conqueror days. But my family is of Irish decent. My great grandfather was MP for County Wicklow. William Joseph Corbet - Wikipedia My grandfather moved to England. My grandmother was Scottish. My father was born in Worthing, Sussex; he emigrated to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe, of course) and that's where I was born.

Yay! Found it:
Corbet Family Crest, Coat of Arms and Name History

Aren't crests awarded/made for specific families, rather than whole groups of people with the same surname

However, this is true.

 

[RJM Corbet]

My great great grandmother was Alice O'Moore; she married Robert Corbet. My grandfather believed O'Moore was a derivation of the old Irish Mulhall name, and so in 1923 he changed our family name by deed poll to Mulhall-Corbet. This has caused difficulty in my attempt to get myself an Irish passport.

Because the deed-poll entry was before 1945 I had to go in person to the National Archive in London and pay £60 for a certified copy. But I'm stymied now anyway because my grandpa died in Zimbabwe (when it was still Rhodesia) and it's impossible to get the death certificate from there online.

I asked a cousin who lives in Zimbabwe to go to the home office in Harare and apply for it, but she told me people have to wait in a queue there for between three and five days to get documents -- unless you know someone in high places there. Obviously she's busy and doesn't have time for it.

She says there are a lot of children there without birth certificates, because documents are so difficult to obtain.

 

[sknox]

I know where I came from.

I came from the other room, just now.

 

[Ursa major]

I came from the other room, just now.

Coming in here, lording it over the rest of us with your throwaway mention of your "other room"....

 

[Pyan]

You lot may have two (or more) rooms, but we have a Borders keep, albeit with no roof...

 

[Ursa major]

Sounds as if I ought to avoid wishing you a long reign....

 

[sknox]

Isn't Borders out of business?

 

[Lew Rockwell Fan]

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