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From: "Andrew Sellon" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] watch out
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:31:16 +0100
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Phyl -

My aside about "Family Coats of Arms" was supposed to be a wry comment, for
strictly speaking, (at least in the U.K.), there is no such thing. Coats of
Arms are issued by the Royal College of Arms or the Lyon King-at-Arms to
individuals and not families, one does not officially pass down the
generations.

Whether or not this is true of the various Continental European countries in
which a Huguenot or Walloon may have picked one up I do not know.

Your experience reminds me of one I had in China many years ago. The coach
had made a 'comfort stop' in a small, dusty, smelly and very hot, town. In
the market was a stall selling T-Shirts on which they printed your name in
Chinese (translated from the English). Intrigued I asked for the name Sellon
to be looked up, the name always floors the charlatans in the trade in this
country. But no, a large reference book was thumbed through and there was
the name Sellon!

Unfortunately at that moment the coach began to hoot furiously and inch it's
way forward, I had to leap for it before making a purchase. I have since
been left wondering whether perhaps I should be on the Chinese rather than
HWE list.

Yours Aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia
The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with
their thumbs. Rev. Sydney Smith 1771-1854, Canon of St. Paul's.


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I wanted my Coat of Arms surely my family had one.
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