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The arms are canting.
The family is of Norwegian origin going back to Viking times with the
name having various spellings with the most common perhaps being
Wedvik or Vedvik. In Norwegian “ved” could mean wood as in woods or
woodlot and “vik” as the source of a fjord. Thus the fir tree stands
for the woods and the shaped the barry wavy Az. & Ar. for the source
of the fjord’s waters and waves.
The armiger, Dwyer Quentin Wedvick, born in 1940 is a graduate of
Darrow School, New Lebanon, NY and the University of Nebraska at
Omaha, Omaha, NB, with a Bachelor’s degree (BGS). He is the head of
his family and holds the lands of Jarlsby in the Orkney Isles of
Scotland. A sometime Captain in the US Army he served with and
commanded units in Korea and Vietnam. Currently, he is a Lieutenant
Colonel in the Veteran Corps of Artillery, State of New York (an
Historic Military Command est. in 1790) and with the same rank is on
the New York State Retired List. The Armiger is the first holder of
armorial bearings in the name of Wedvick and as such bears the
undifferenced arms as the head of family. The heritor to the arms is
currently an heiress, his daughter, Jessica Fairlamb Wedvick.
Conferral: S. A. R. Don Carlos de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y de Borbón-Parma,
Duque de Calabria, Conde de Caserta, Infante de España and first
cousin to the King of Spain, conferred the Honour of Knighthood upon
the armiger as a Knight Jure Sanguinis of the Sacred and Military
Constantinian Order of St. George, on 22 May 2009, this event being
recorded in Book 2, Folio 160, under Number 1267 of the Constantinian
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