“Parent’s headstone,” that’s two words that I would have never expected to be saying or thinking about for years to come, yet here I am now.
It finally came in last week, and this afternoon Chase and I road out to Chatsworth to take a look at it. We’re supposed to take a look at it before they take it to McCaysville and set it in place. It was in a fenced in area so we were only able to look at the most important side of it from a distance, although the back will have some things on it as well. I honestly don’t think that we could have picked out a more perfect stone. This exact stone was the one at the funeral home as you walked in. When we all first saw it, we knew that it was the one. The cabin on it is a touch that really touches all of us, because it was Mom’s dream to have their cabin finished so that my parents could spend the rest of their lives together in it. It (their cabin) has not changed at all since the last day that my Mom and Dad were up there working on it, but I know one day we will finish it. Dad said Mom made him promise her one of the last times they were there, that if something were to happen to her, that he would still finish it. So we will.
The only thing that I’ve found so far is that the birds appear to be called ‘eagle displayed’. I’ve not made it to what the colors, shape of the shield, birds, number of birds, helmet, etc. mean yet, but will update this post as I discover.
If you happen to stumble across this post and know anything specific about the Holden coat of arms, please leave a comment. I’m very interested in knowing more about what each item means in greater detail.
The history and origin behind last names are very interesting.
Origin: English
Coat of Arms: Silver with six red allerions, and a red escutcheon in the center.
Crest: A double headed red allerian.
Motto: Nec temere nec timide
Motto Translated: Neither rashly nor timidly.
Source: surnamehistories.com
The name Holden was first used by England’s ancient Anglo-Saxon culture. It comes from when the family lived in the county of Lancashire, where they held the estate of Holden in the parish of Haslingden.
First found in Lancashire where they were seated from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.
For many English families, the political and religious disarray that shrouded England made the far away New World an attractive prospect. On cramped disease-ridden ships, thousands migrated to those British colonies that would eventually become Canada and the United States. Those hardy settlers that survived the journey often went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Holden or a variant[...]: John Holden settled in Virginia in 1637; Edward Holden settled in Jamaica in 1685; Joane Holden settled in Virginia in 1652; Justinian Holden settled in New England in 1634. Source houseofnames.com
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