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    Re: Family tartan design?

    Quote Originally Posted by celticpride View Post
    this my familys coat of arms
    I always thought that Coats of Arms were given to individuals and not to familys?

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    Re: Family tartan design?

    Quote Originally Posted by BCAC View Post
    I always thought that Coats of Arms were given to individuals and not to familys?
    There is a difference in practice between the UK and the continent. On the continent the Coat of Arms is connected with the family.
    There may be differences for individuals especially in the mantling and the crest, but mostly not in the shield. But that is not common practice.
    Quote Originally Posted by Pleater View Post
    Weeelll - once I was walking along the row of shops near us and passed a young couple, she was wearing a narrow strip of denim for a skirt and a couple of handkerchieves worth of fabric for a blouse and it was losing the fight to stay closed - I was almost out of earshot when he enquired 'why doesn't your skirt move like that?' Anne the Pleater

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