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  • the O'Reilly family crest

    From reeljesse5@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 24 01:43:02 2017
    Love it expands a lot family history youngest son named Damien reel very proud

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  • From carolorr@usa.net@21:1/5 to Robert Miller on Thu Jan 25 00:29:12 2018
    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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  • From Nick O'Riley@21:1/5 to caro...@usa.net on Fri Nov 25 22:35:52 2022
    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

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