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Shury Coat of Arms / Shury Family CrestThe associated coat of arms is recorded in Sir Bernard Burke's General Armory. Ulster King of Arms in 1884. This surname of SHURY is an Orkney surname, a contraction for SIGURDSON. The Orkney Islands being a group of islands off the north coast of Scotland, constituting a county of Scotland. The name is also spelt SCHUREY and SCHEWRIE. It was an occupational name for an official inspector, for example the official overseer of a market. The name was derived from the old word SCHEWRIE, meaning 'to look, to inspect'. Many of the modern family names throughout Europe reflect the profession or occupation of their forbears in the Middle Ages and derive from the position held by their ancestors in the village, noble household or religious community in which they lived and worked. The addition of their profession to their birth name made it easier to identify individual tradesmen and craftsmen. As generations passed and families moved around, so the original identifying names developed into the corrupted but simpler versions that we recognise today. A notable member of the name includes Niels SIGURDSSON who was the Ambassador of Iceland in Bonn from 1976. he was born in Reykjavic on the 10th February 1926. The use of fixed surnames or descriptive names appears to have commenced in France about the year 1000, and such names were introduced into Scotland through the Normans a little over one hundred years later, although the custom of using them was by no means common for many years afterwards. During the reign of Malcolm Ceannmor (1057-1093) the latter directed his chief subjects, after the custom of other nations, to adopt surnames from their territorial possessions, and there created 'The first erlis that euir was in Scotland'. In the Middle Ages heraldry came into use as a practical matter. It originated in the devices used to distinguish the armoured warriors in tournament and war, and was also placed on seals as marks of identity. As far as records show, true heraldry began in the middle of the 12th century, and appeared almost simultaneously in several countries of Western Europe. |
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