Comments on: Coat of Arms http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2005/05/25/coat-of-arms/ Where Past Meets Future Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:43:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Christina Tait http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2005/05/25/coat-of-arms/#comment-3469 Christina Tait Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:45:10 +0000 http://www.goskar.com/?p=16#comment-3469 Wow Graham you have the same exact last name as me. I wonder if we are related? Yes we do have a coat of arms. Anyways I find this family crest/ coat of arms thing very interesting. I love things like this. Wow Graham you have the same exact last name as me. I wonder if we are related? Yes we do have a coat of arms. Anyways I find this family crest/ coat of arms thing very interesting. I love things like this.

]]> By: tehmina.org » Blog Archive » In the footsteps of my families http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2005/05/25/coat-of-arms/#comment-802 tehmina.org » Blog Archive » In the footsteps of my families Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:53:51 +0000 http://www.goskar.com/?p=16#comment-802 [...] The Goskars I am now related to are from Cornwall. They have a coat of arms but we as yet we don’t know why they were awarded it. Some cursory searches have found Goskars in south Wales and Norfolk and a few years ago one in South Africa. It is an unusual name and does not seem to be of Cornish (linguistically) origin itself. Many people think it sounds Scandinavian, Germanic or Slavic. There is an enormous outcrop of rock off the North Beach in Tenby called Goskar Rock (also spelt Goscar). When we visited the local museum in Tenby they seemed to trace the word to a ‘Saxon’ word for a ploughshare - the main cutting blade of a plough but we have found no reliable references for this to date. Perhaps more intruiguing is the existence of a small village called Goskar now in north-west Poland and called Gostchorze but previously in Germany (the region of Prussia). Someone has written a short history of Goskar in German and published it online. My German is too ropey to understand it well but I am hoping to ask a friend a favour and try and find out more about this village which was and possibly still is a small farming community. [...] [...] The Goskars I am now related to are from Cornwall. They have a coat of arms but we as yet we don’t know why they were awarded it. Some cursory searches have found Goskars in south Wales and Norfolk and a few years ago one in South Africa. It is an unusual name and does not seem to be of Cornish (linguistically) origin itself. Many people think it sounds Scandinavian, Germanic or Slavic. There is an enormous outcrop of rock off the North Beach in Tenby called Goskar Rock (also spelt Goscar). When we visited the local museum in Tenby they seemed to trace the word to a ‘Saxon’ word for a ploughshare - the main cutting blade of a plough but we have found no reliable references for this to date. Perhaps more intruiguing is the existence of a small village called Goskar now in north-west Poland and called Gostchorze but previously in Germany (the region of Prussia). Someone has written a short history of Goskar in German and published it online. My German is too ropey to understand it well but I am hoping to ask a friend a favour and try and find out more about this village which was and possibly still is a small farming community. [...]

]]> By: Jon O'Brien http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2005/05/25/coat-of-arms/#comment-15 Jon O'Brien Sat, 18 Jun 2005 02:46:12 +0000 http://www.goskar.com/?p=16#comment-15 Tom: In Kernow, it probably had more to do with selling flagons than slaying dragons! Tom:

In Kernow, it probably had more to do with selling flagons than slaying dragons!

]]> By: Tom http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2005/05/25/coat-of-arms/#comment-13 Tom Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:46:06 +0000 http://www.goskar.com/?p=16#comment-13 Jon: 'Tis true! One of my ancestors could indeed have bought a coat of arms to gentrify himself, and the family thereafter... I prefer to think it was for some noble deed, like dragon slaying ;) Jon:

‘Tis true! One of my ancestors could indeed have bought a coat of arms to gentrify himself, and the family thereafter…

I prefer to think it was for some noble deed, like dragon slaying ;)

]]> By: Jon O'Brien http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2005/05/25/coat-of-arms/#comment-12 Jon O'Brien Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:26:57 +0000 http://www.goskar.com/?p=16#comment-12 You've already got a whopping great chalk arch named after your family, Howard! You’ve already got a whopping great chalk arch named after your family, Howard!

]]> By: Jon O'Brien http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2005/05/25/coat-of-arms/#comment-11 Jon O'Brien Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:21:40 +0000 http://www.goskar.com/?p=16#comment-11 Sorry to (potentially) disillusion you, Tom, but a coat of arms isn't awarded. Anyone that reached a sufficiently elevated social position, as well as having the cash to pay for it, could, and still can, buy one! Still, at least you know that, somewhere in your ancestry, someone rose above the level of a serfdom. ;-) Sorry to (potentially) disillusion you, Tom, but a coat of arms isn’t awarded. Anyone that reached a sufficiently elevated social position, as well as having the cash to pay for it, could, and still can, buy one!

Still, at least you know that, somewhere in your ancestry, someone rose above the level of a serfdom. ;-)

]]> By: Graham Tait http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2005/05/25/coat-of-arms/#comment-7 Graham Tait Sun, 29 May 2005 23:09:49 +0000 http://www.goskar.com/?p=16#comment-7 Well, after stumbling on your marvellous 'blog (I think that word should have an apostrophe before it - but maybe I'm old fashioned!), it's got me wondering if there is a Tait coat of arms. Off to get a copy of Burke’s Peerage then! Well, after stumbling on your marvellous ‘blog (I think that word should have an apostrophe before it - but maybe I’m old fashioned!), it’s got me wondering if there is a Tait coat of arms. Off to get a copy of Burke’s Peerage then!

]]> By: Tom http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2005/05/25/coat-of-arms/#comment-6 Tom Thu, 26 May 2005 08:20:18 +0000 http://www.goskar.com/?p=16#comment-6 You'll need to go to a reference library and look up your surname in Burke's General Armoury, or if you're lucky, Burke's Peerage (or Landed Gentry). If your surname is listed, you'll need to prove that you are descended from the person originally granted the arms. A coat of arms is not tied to a surname. The best place for more info is the <a href="http://college-of-arms.gov.uk/" rel="nofollow">College of Arms</a>... You’ll need to go to a reference library and look up your surname in Burke’s General Armoury, or if you’re lucky, Burke’s Peerage (or Landed Gentry). If your surname is listed, you’ll need to prove that you are descended from the person originally granted the arms. A coat of arms is not tied to a surname. The best place for more info is the College of Arms…

]]> By: Howard Durdle http://www.pastthinking.com/blog/2005/05/25/coat-of-arms/#comment-5 Howard Durdle Wed, 25 May 2005 09:57:23 +0000 http://www.goskar.com/?p=16#comment-5 That's fantastic! I wonder if there's a coat of arms for Durdle? And how does one find out if a family was awarded a coat of arms? That’s fantastic! I wonder if there’s a coat of arms for Durdle? And how does one find out if a family was awarded a coat of arms?

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