1) Brigita Gescheid (F) – New Name and Device – Quarterly purpure and argent, two mullets of twelve points Or

Winged Hills

Sources:

<Brigita>
German Names from Nürnberg, 1497 by Sara L. Uckelman http://heraldry.sca.org/names/german/nurnberg1497.html

<Gescheid>
German Names from Nürnberg, 1497: A - M by Sara L. Uckelman http://heraldry.sca.org/names/german/surnamesnurna-m.html


Escut. Notes: Client cares most about language and culture, early 15th C German.

2) Catriona nicHuge McLae (F) – New Badge – (Fieldless) A sprig of oak inverted fructed of two acorns quarterly gules and argent.

Alderford


Escut. Notes: Name registered Feb 1987

3) Elizabeth Griffin (F) – New Name

Flaming Gryphon

Sources:

<Elizabeth>
The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names by E G Withycombe, p 99-100, from 1205

<Griffin>
A Dictionary of English Surnames, 3rd ed., pg 206 from 1197
 

4) Gyða Arnórrsdottir (F) – New Alternate Name

Flaming Gryphon

Sources:

<Gyða>
Geirr Bassi, page 10

<Arnórr>
Ibid., pg 7

Construction: Ibid., pg 17


Escut. Notes: Client cares most about sound. Client’s current Society name is Cathryn of Chester, registered August 1994

5) Hannah Schreiber (F) – New Name and Device – Per chevron purpure and argent a sun counterchanged

Cynnabar

Sources:

<Hannah>
Socin, Adolf. Mittelhochdeutsches Namenbuch. <Hanne> p 563 (Section XXV - Juden) dated to 1329

<Schreiber>
Academy of St. Gabriel report 3063 establishes <Schreiber> as High German.
Report 686 dates the name to 1404
http://www.s-gabriel.org/3063
http://www.s-gabriel.org/686


Escut. Notes: Client would prefer “-ah” ending but will accept this spelling. Client cares most about language and culture, HochDeutsch

6) Anselm Mareschal  (M) – New Name

Illiton

Sources:

<Anselm>
http://www.s-gabriel.org/253 list of Anglo-Norman names from 12th and 13th Cent.

<Mareschal>
http://www.s-gabriel.org/1174 form of Le Mareschal from 13th Cent. Southern France.

Escut. Notes: Client will NOT accept Major changes to name. Cares most about sound. Client would like name to be authentic for 14th cent English.
Client wants current name, Kenneth Muntsorell registered July 2006, retained as an alternate name.
 

7) Mordak Timofeivich Rostovskogo (M) – New Device – Gules, semy of horseshoes a garb Or

Flaming Gryphon

8) Nicholas of Wicklow (M) – New Name and Device – Quarterly vert and sable, a chief embattled and a dog’s head erased Or

Flaming Gryphon

Sources:

<Nicholas>
Wolfe, Irish Names and surnames, p 195 S.N. Nicolás

<Wicklow>
Mills, Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names, p 497 S.N. Wicklow


Escut. Notes: Client cares most about sound.

9) Roibhilín of Adair (M) – New Name and Device – Argent, a bend wavy azure between three oak leaves vert.

Lochmorrow

Sources:

<Roibhilín>
Wolfe, Irish Names and Surnames, Revised 1992, p199

<Adair>
An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import. Arthur, William, M.A.: New York, NY: Sheldon, Blake, Bleeker and Co., 1857
From Gaelic <Ath> meaning “a ford” and <dare>, from <darach>, meaning “the place of oaks”
 

10) Soffya von Kulp (F) – New Name and Device – Argent, a bend gules ermined argent between two waterbougets gules

Flaming Gryphon

Sources

<Soffya>
Bahlow, 2nd ed., p 479 S.N. <Sophie>

<(von) Kulp>
Ibid. p.290 S.N. <Külpe>


Escut. Notes: Client cares most about sound.
Consultants Notes: I have found recent evidence of the registration of <Soffya>, but I can find not documentation of this spelling. The client would prefer this spelling but is willing to accept another similar spelling. (Dafydd Blaidd, Consulting Herald)

11) Sorća Drać (F) – New Name and Device – Argent, a dragon’s head affronty and on a chief azure three bezants

Winged Hills

Sources

Irish names and surnames- Rev. Patrick Woulfe

<Sorća> - p 217
<Drać> - p. 283


Escut. Notes: Client will NOT accept Major changes to name. Cares most about spelling and does not care about gender.
 

12) Thorfinn Davidson (M) – Name and Device – Sable, a mask of comedy argent and on a chief gules two wings displayed argent

Sternfeld

Sources

The Old Norse Name, Geirr Bassi Haraldsson
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml

<Thorfinn> - page 16
(Þórfinnr)

<David> - page 9


Escut. Notes: Client will NOT accept Major changes to name. Cares most about Language and culture. 10th Cent. Norse
 

Yours In Service,

THL Geniveve Rose D'Glendalough

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