Minutes of the 6 June 1999 Meeting

[Note: These submissions appear on the Dec 1999 LoAR]

Notes and Announcements

Future meeting dates are 18 July, 22 August, 12 September, 17 October, 7 November, and 12 December.

James of the Lake announced a new Kingdom Tabard, made by Lady Xantha, for Silver Trumpet. Lightweight and nice.

Scaraceninc Heraldry is out in reprint, ISBN 0-19-817120-X, publisher Oxford Univ. Press.

Crescent is wearing His Uncle's Uniform this month. Dolphin is running the meeting.

Queen's Champion - Consultation table is looking for people. Honor would appreciate the help. Crescent asks that all heralds bring their tabards to Coronation and Queen's Champion - wear them as well, please.

The LoAR was read. Please spell Contourny without an 'e'. However, if you use a French spelling at one point in the blazon, spell that way throughout [contourné].

Altavia, Barony of

Hawken of the Greenbriar (Badge)

Per bend sinister sable and purpure a bend sinister gules fimbriated between a tower and an eagle displayed argent

Name:

Name registered by laurel 2/91

Device:

Please retain the old device as a badge.

BADGE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Angels, Barony of

Jordana Aveline of Erroll (Kingdom Resub Name and Device)

Per bend, purpure and vert a bend between eight fleurs de lys Or

Name:

"Jordana" is the submitter's mundane middle name. A photocopy of her driver's license is attached. We have also found "Jordanus" in "Withycombe", pg 180 dated to 1196, for which "Jordana" is the feminization. "Aveline" is found in "Reaney", pg 19, and is dated to the 12th Century in the earliest variants. The header spelling is undated. "Erroll" is a patronymic found in "Black", pg. 246, the name taken from the city of "Errol" in "Perthshire", found in "Johnston", pg 174 and established in 1190. We believe that the submitter's spelling is a reasonable variant of the locative (which itself has many variants, e.g. "Erole", "Errol", "Erolyn"and more). The submitter allows minor changes, should the College deem it necessary to spell the last name "Errol".

Device:

Please note that the submitter specifically requests that there be eight fleurs de lys, and not a semé.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Calafia, Barony of

Culloch MacUalraig (New Name)

Name:

"Culloch" is found in "Maclysaght", pg. 483 under "MacCulloch". "MacUalraig" is from "Black", pg. 569 under "MacWalrick" and dates to the 16th Century.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Éblenn ingen meic an úcaire (New Name)

Name:

"Éblenn" is found in "Ó Corráin and Maguire", pg. 82 under "Ebliu". "ingen" is the feminine patronymic. "meic an úcaire" is the lenited form in the genitive case of "mac an " found in "Woulfe", pg. 319. The construction of the patronymic is from "Talan-Feminine", pg. 47.Unfortunately, the submitter failed to sign the form so we are returning it for administrative reasons.

NAME RETURNED FOR LACK OF SIGNATURE

Sciath inghean Eachdonn (Name and Device)

Sable, on a pale between two card piques argent a winged catamount sejant erect guardant wings elevated and addorsed vert

Name:

"Sciath" is found in Ó Corráin and Maguire p. 162. "Eachdonn" is in Black p. 235, under Eachan. Dated to 1092.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Darach, Shire of

Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme (Change of device)

Azure, on a chief embattled argent a dragon couchant azure, winged sable gorged of a coronet Or. For augmentation, the dragon maintaining between its forefeet an escutcheon azure charged with four crescents conjoined in saltire, horns outward argent

Name:

registered by laurel 10/81

Device:

Submitter releases the old device on passage of this one. Submitter is a court baron and is entitled to the coronet per the LoAR of 5/1999.

DEVICE CHANGE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Dreiburgen, Barony of

Deirdre inghean Chananaich of Skye (administrative)

Name:

The College processed with the wrong spelling for Cananaich last month. "Chananaich" is in Black p. 467, under MacChananaich. Dated 1389. Submitted as "Cananaich", changed for lenition. "Deirdre",is in Ó Corráin and Maguire p. 71, under "Derdriu". "Skye" is in Johnstone, Placenames of Scotland, p. 296, dated to 1292 as "Skey".

APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Faoiltighearna ní Dhuinn (Kingdom resub device)

Vert a dragonfly and on a chief Or three pomegranates slipped and leaved proper

Name:

registered by Laurel 4/97

DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Dun Or, Barony of

Ciar ni ui Mhaoildeirg (New Name)

Name:

"Ciar" is found in "Ó Corráin and Maguire", pg. 51. "ni ui" means "daughter of a descendent of", and is formed per "Talan-Feminine", pg. 51.

"Mhaoildeirg" is found in "Maclysaght", pg. 225 under "Ó Mulderrig" and is undated.

Unfortunately the submitter did not sign the forms, so we must return it for administrative reasons.

NAME RETURNED FOR LACK OF SIGNATURE

Heatherwyne, Shire of

Kathleen Mahony of Cork (New Name and Device)

Vert, a griffon passant argent maintaining a harp Or between three celtic crosses argent

Name:

"Kathleen"is found under Caiterina in "Ó Corráin and Maguire", pg. 45 and is the Anglicization of the Irish borrowing of Catherine. "Mahoney"is found in "Maclysaght", pg. 205, and is given as a variant of the "Mahon" family.

"Cork" is a county in Ireland, the city of which "Columbia Lippencott", pg. 450 dates to 1172.

Device:

The College wishes to make a note to the submitter that the crosses need to be drawn larger, bolder and clearer.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Lyondemere, Barony of

Lupus of Arundel: Hûs Wælsinges (New household name and device)

Per chevron rayonny gules and Or, two drakkar prows couped addorsed conjoined proper

Name:

Name registered by Laurel 6/94

"Wæls" W.G. Searle, p. 473, shows "Wælsing as a patronimic of "Wæls". The plural-patronimic is "Wælsinges". Dated to Beowulf. Submitted as "Waælsinges". With the submitter's verbal approval we added "Hus" to make this more appropriate to a household name. Submitter allows no major changes."Hûs", J.R. Clark Hall, A concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, p. 196, means House.

Device:

We cite "Storvik, barony of", 1/97, [Fieldless] A wooden drakkar's prow proper.

There is a contrast problem between wooden items proper and color fields, including a precedent on this. This is also lacking identifiability. Suggestion is to separate the prows and to change the color of the gules field or the prows. Also, please feed the rayonny.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL
DEVICE RETURNED FOR REDRAW

Nordwache, Barony of

Seanach an tSeanachaidhe (Name change, device change)

Sable, between the horns of a crescent argent two stag's attires Or

Name:

Registered as Seanach Ó hAoadha 11/97.

"Seanach"is in Ó Corráin and Maguire p. 164, under "Senach" early Irish name.

"tSeanachaidhe" Gaelic for "The Storyteller". From the LoAR 4/93 "The occupational byname uses incorrect grammar the article "na" is the female genitive form, it should be the masculine nominative form "an". It should also prefix a T to nouns beginning with S + a vowel, so the correct form should be "an tSeanachaidhe"."

Device:

We cite "Sir Thomas Belsham" Sable, a crescent argent. Papworth p. 594. We do not consider this an important enough person to protect. No instructions were given as to disposition of the currently registered Or a crescent and on a chief triangular sable a massacre Or. No conflicts found.

PENDED FOR SIGNATURE AND PAYMENT

Starkhafn, Barony of

Antonius Falconerius (New Name)

Name:

"Antonius" is the Latin form of "Antonio", which is found in "deFelice-Nomi", pg. 69. In addition "Withycombe", pg. 28 dates the name to the 13th Century.

"Falconerius" is the Latin form of "Falco", found in "deFelice-Nomi", pg. 121, and means someone who sells or tames falcons.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Siobhán Faolscatha (New Name)

Name:

"Siobhán" is in Ó Corráin and Maguire p. 165. "Faolscatha", "Foal" Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, p. 518, under Faol. Means "Wolf". "scatha", ibid, p. 1045, under scáth, "scatha" is the genitive. 4th meaning shade or phantom.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Except for putting away files, the meeting ended at about 5 p.m.

In service to Caid.

Madawc ap Caradoc, Dolphin

Bibliography

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Ekwall, E. (1960). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names. Oxford/Clarendon, Oxford, 4th ed.

Johnston, J. B. (1934) Place-Names of Scotland. London John Murray 3rd ed.

MacLysaght, E. (1985) The Surnames of Ireland. Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 6th edition.

Ó Corráin, D. and F. Maguire (1981) Gaelic Personal Names. The Academy Press, Dublin

Oxford University, editor (1971) The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, Oxford

Reaney, P. H., and Wilson, R. M. (1995) A Dictionary of British Surnames. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 3rd ed

Seltzer, L. E., ed. (1952) The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World. Columbia University Press, Morningside Heights, NY

Talan Gwynek (1996) "On Feminine Patronymics in Gaelic" Caidan Heraldic and Scribal Symposium, AS XXX, Vol. II. pages 51-57. Upland, CA.Caidan College of Heralds

Withycombe, E. G. (1977) The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names. Oxford Oxford University Press, 3rd edition.

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