[Scriptoris] OT: a weird heraldry question..

[Alasdair MacEogan]

My books are packed up for moving at home, but a cursory search on the net turned up little.  The closest I can come from a quick search is Mordake as a variant of Murdock.  

He will not be the first person who has used an unregisterable name for a long time and had problems when it came time to register.  One option I have seen people us is register what they can and call themself whatever they want to anyway.  I can't say I would choose this path, but it has been done.

I would just add, good luck.

Going back to lurk mode,
Alasdair MacEogan

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> From: zubeydah at northkeep.org
> Subject: [Scriptoris] OT: a weird heraldry question..
> Sent: 28 Jul '05 09:46
> 
>  
>  I know this is rather of an odd question, but... i'm kinda under a massive
>  sudden time crunch... (I promised a friend I would help him decipher the
>  process of registering his name - he's in the Outlands - and it was a vague
>  time frame of 'whenever', but now he's fighting in Crown Tournament, and a
>  device is required there for that... and the deadline to register is saturday!
>  erk!)
>  
>  I am trying to find any kind of documentation I can get my hands on for the
>  name of "Mordrake".  The fellow has used it in the society for over 20 years,
>  but never registered it.  He's more than willing to use it as a surname, if
>  need be, with the first name of "Hale" - Yes, he likes puns.
>  
>  Any help or nudge in the direction of resources would be much appreciated. I
>  pretty much exhausted all of the local public library resources: they didn't
>  carry any of the books the heraldry page on the SCA.ORG site listed as being
>  strong sources.  :-(  I'm going to try the geneological library tonight, to see
>  if that has anything.
>  
>  I would be very happy to give material thanks to whomever (if anyone) can help
>  with this off-topic question!
>  
>  -Zubeydah the frazzled
>  
>  
>  PS: Thank you to everyone that helped me with the celtic knotwork beastie AOA.
>  Finished it last night, and the patron's very very happy.
>  
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