Kleiboeker Family Tree - Person Sheet
Kleiboeker Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameHenry DE HEDE
BirthNorthumberland, England
Death31 Mar 1374
Spouses
Unmarried
ChildrenAdam (<1374-1391)
Notes for Henry DE HEDE
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The Harrisons are said to have come into England with the Norse
Viking Sea Kings, who finally under Canute (1016-1035)
conquered and possessed the whole of the country. They were
among the "free Danes" and were the last to withstand William
the Conquerer, himself of Norse Viking origin. Thus they were
in England a generation or more before the time of the Battle
of Hastings, Oct 14, 1066, and the period of the Doomesday Book
(1085-1086), from which many old English families date their
origin.

Northumberland, the Danish section of England, is said to be
filled with Harrisons now, and the name there is variously
spelled, sometimes without an H. The name being of Danish
patronymic origin. Arysen, Aertzen, which is common to this day
in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. (Richmond, Virginia Standard,
No. 41, June 12, 1880).

That Daniel and Robert were favorite early given names among
the Harrisons of Northumberland is shown by a record of the
baptism of Daniell, son of Robert Harrison in the parish of
Berwick-on-Tweed, under date of December 26, 1610.

Northumberland, is the northernmost shire of England. To the
east it borders on the North Sea, and to the north on the River
Tweed, which separates it from Scotland. Berwick,
Northumberland is the farthest north of any city of England.
From the old kingdom of the north, the Harrisons drifted south
among the various other shires and some moved into Scotland.

Directly South of Northumberland, and bordering also on the
North Sea, lies the county of Durham. The county was one of the
Counties Palatine; the other two being Lancashire and Cheshire.
The city of Durham is the seat of the catherdral of St.
Cuthbert, begun in 1095, the view of which from the river is
said be surpassed by no other English cathedral. The town grew
up from the
early church.

The parish registers of St. Margaret's, Durham, begin with
early Harrisons in 1559.:
Wm Herrison et Margrett Farles', Nov 9, 1559
Thom Herrison et Isabel Whitfield' June 16, 1560
Xpofor Herrisn et Ann Walton' Nov 12, 1593
Thomm Herrison et Elizabeth Gryndve' Nov 7, 1598
Rollands Harysen et Jensta Thompson' June 29, 1600
Johannes Herrison et Bettram Wrangham, Jiduam' July 4, 1602.
(Publications of the Harleian Society, Registers of St.
Margaret's, Durham, pp. 1, 6, 7.)

South of Durham and skirting the North Sea to the Humber, lies
Yorkshire, and to the west borders Cumberland, and
Westmoreland. In each of these counties were found Harrison
families in 1575, when records, as collected by the College of
Arms, dated back to the days of the old Chronicles.

The College of Arms, London, the famous depository of English
pedigrees was incorporated in 1483. The Visitations of the
Nobility and Gentry began in 1528. The last commission under
the great seal for registering descents, was issued in 1686.
Some pedigrees were registered as late as 1704, but since then
it has been left to the individual to continue or not, their
pedigrees with the College.

The oldest Harrison pedigree of record is that styled simply
"Harrison," tracing the descent of a London family of Tower
Ward, 1633, from the year 1374.

Granted in 1613, the Arms are:
Harrison of London - descended from Durham: -
Arms: "Or, on a fesse sable, three eagles displayed of the
field, a crescent for difference."
Crest: "On a chapeau Sable turned up and indented Azure an
eagle's head Or charged with a crescent." (Originally may have
been three eagles turned loose - however, pedigree of equal, or
earlier, age is found represented by only one eagle. Burke's
General Armoury - 1851)

The colors being "Azure" or blue, for the shield, "Or" (Aurum)
or gold, for the figure and "Argent" or silver, for the
decoration, show that the chief motif of the Arms is a golden
eagle. The bird is depicted on the shield with its wings
expanded as specified by the word "displayed" and is emblished
by a ducal coronet encircling its neck. The shield is
surrounded with a border decoration similiar to a wreath, the
same being joined together at the top by a small figure in
place of the usual knot, resembling a cap, as
follows:
Arms: "Azure an eagle displayed Or ducally gorged Ar."
Crest: "On a Chapeau Azure turned up and indented ermine a
bird with wings endorsed Sable."

Ten generations are embraced in these arms and are the same as
displayed by Daniel Harrison, son of Isaiah Harrison and Robert
Harrison, grandson of Isaiah, in Rockingham county, Virginia,
in the 1700s. The golden eagle displayed was the heraldic
emblem of Isaiah Harrison's family.
Last Modified NewCreated 1 Feb 2019 By Dennis R Kruse
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