Custom Sgian Dubh

[Kilted in Maine]

Be careful as this post may elicit a response from those who are highly skeptical of the validity of the family crests and coat of arms often presented by many vendors on-line.

I admit that I have little personal knowledge to support or debunk their validity.

If some support for this crest could be substantiated, I do like the simplicity (as would an engraver, I suspect)

http://www.hopw00d.info/

linked from: http://thehopw00dfamily.blogspot.com/

If all else fails, you can get him a t-shirt…

http://www.zazzle.com/personalized_b...44501352603994

[KiltedGirl]

I also must apologize if I am using the wrong terminology for things, and please feel free to correct me. I have a think skin and am not easily offended. I'd rather be corrected and learn something than continue to sound uneducated.

Thanks!

[KiltedGirl]

Thanks "Maine" the description is from a book from the mid 1800's and has some precedent with his family already.

[druid]

http://www.houseofnames.com/hopwood-family-crest

http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c...-coat-arms.htm

http://www.4crests.com/hopwood-english.html

http://genforum.genealogy.com/hopwood/

http://www.curiousfox.com/surnames/Hopwood_1.html

http://www.4crests.com/hopwood-coat-of-arms.html

[KiltedGirl]

Thanks Druid, I've been through about 50 sites in the last week or so! lol and that's not an exaggeration!

it seems that the Lancashire group has the green and gold and the cut hand holding a shell. The rest have green and white with the shell in the filed. Then of course there is the blue and yellow chevron which is just random

I have a couple of books that have both the green/gold AND the green/white versions listed right next to each other.

*sigh* waaaaay too complicated!

[Dale-of-Cedars]

I see from a couple of those genealogy links that the Hopwood name seems to originate in Derbyshire. My mother's family came from there too, so I thought I'd pass on a small family poem that was handed down to me.

...ahem...

"Derbyshire born,
Derbyshire bred.
Strong in the back,
and weak in the head."