On Monday, August 27, 1990 at 9:00:07 PM UTC-5, Robert Miller wrote:   
   > I recently attended an Irish festival with a friend (both of us are   
   > of Irish descent) and he showed me what his family (O'Reilly) crest   
   > looked like.  One of the more striking features of the crest is   
   > a severed hand with blood dripping from it.   
   >    
   > There's got to be a good story behind how that got there.  Does    
   > anyone know it?   
   >    
   > Robert   
   > rmiller@sbcs.sunysb.edu   
      
   My father who has scots-irish ancestry told me the story of the ORR family   
   crest..a bleeding hand…based on similar story but of the scots being told   
   the first to touch the land of ireland would own it. The ships were neck in   
   neck and one cut off his    
   hand and threw it on the land.   
      
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