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Title: help with coat of arms please
Post by: jimmy57 on Wednesday 15 January 14 12:33 GMT (UK)
hello everyone.

my mothers maiden name is henderson and her fathers family originally came from armagh in Ireland i believe in the late 18 hundreds to settle in the UK.

I am getting married in June this year and my wife to be, her family are scots and will be wearing kilts of the Gordon clan .  i would like to wear the klt of the henderson clan from Ireland but don't have much look in finding the colour or the family crest associated with the hendersons, any help would be much appreciated.

many thanks in advance

jimmy 
Title: Re: help with coat of arms please
Post by: Skoosh on Wednesday 15 January 14 12:52 GMT (UK)
Jimmy, a Cathness name, stuff here,   http://clanhendersonsociety.org

Bests,

Skoosh,
Title: Re: help with coat of arms please
Post by: jimmy57 on Monday 27 January 14 18:51 GMT (UK)
sorry for the late reply, but many thanks for your help.
Title: Re: help with coat of arms please
Post by: sancti on Monday 27 January 14 19:03 GMT (UK)
Jimmy

Wear a tartan that you like.

The tartans we see today only date back to the 1820s and are a commercial venture with no links to the clan system
Title: Re: help with coat of arms please
Post by: jimmy57 on Monday 27 January 14 19:50 GMT (UK)
i may just do that.  there is a support the troops tartan i believe and so much goes to helping those who were injured in war, thanks for that idea.
Title: Re: help with coat of arms please
Post by: sancti on Monday 27 January 14 20:35 GMT (UK)
If you want to keep the Irish connection have a read at this

http://www.tartansauthority.com/highland-dress/irish-dress/
Title: Re: help with coat of arms please
Post by: KGarrad on Monday 27 January 14 21:45 GMT (UK)
I had a similar problem for my wedding!

So we went by colour, and my bride and I chose the same blue tartan.

Turned out to be Dress Rangers FC - just as well the in-laws were Ulster Protestant!! ;D ;D
Title: Re: help with coat of arms please
Post by: sancti on Monday 27 January 14 22:17 GMT (UK)
I thought Rangers FC were Scottish  ???
Title: Re: help with coat of arms please
Post by: KGarrad on Monday 27 January 14 22:35 GMT (UK)
They are - and I'm English, with no Scots blood in me whatsoever!
Football fans in Ulster tend to support either Glasgow Celtic (if they are catholic) or Glasgow Rangers (if they are protestant)!

Just another facet of the sectarian divide, I fear!
Title: Re: help with coat of arms please
Post by: sancti on Monday 27 January 14 23:20 GMT (UK)
Quote from: KGarrad on Monday 27 January 14 22:35 GMT (UK)
I'm English, with no Scots blood in me whatsoever!


Why a tartan wedding?
Title: Re: help with coat of arms please
Post by: KGarrad on Tuesday 28 January 14 04:11 GMT (UK)
Blame the wife! ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: help with coat of arms please
Post by: sancti on Tuesday 28 January 14 07:29 GMT (UK)
 ;D ;D ;D

I've got a wife like that too.

I hope you have a long and happy marriage but if things go wrong tell her you don't want a divorce, you want a liquidation  ;D