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|    Nick O'Riley to caro...@usa.net    |
|    Re: the O'Reilly family crest    |
|    25 Nov 22 22:35:52    |
      From: nickoriley2000@gmail.com              On Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 12:29:13 AM UTC-8, caro...@usa.net wrote:       > 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        > > rmi...@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.              That's the legend that's been cast down in or family. Our spelling is:        O'Riley              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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