Whelan Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Whelan Name Origin



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Whelan Family Crest



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Origin of the Name Whelan



The ancient history of the name Whelan was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Variants of Whelan include Phelan, O'Phelan and Whelahan. Meaning 'Little Wolf', these names are variants of the same Gaelic surname, 'O'Faolain'. This Irish Sept had their territory in the south-west part of County Kilkenny. Their chiefs were Princes of the Decies before the Norman Invasion, and they soon spread to County Waterford and adjacent areas. The gentleman who styles himself O'Phelan, Prince of Decies, was born a Whelan. In the United States James Phelan, 1824-1892, was a pioneer and his son James Duval Phelan, 1861-1920, was a Senator and Mayor of San Francisco. The majority of present day Phelans and Whelans are still to be found in Dublin, Kilkenny and Waterford.
The Whelan coat of arms came into existence centuries ago. The process of creating coats of arms (also often called family crests) began in the eleventh century although a form of Proto-Heraldry may have existed in some countries prior to this. The new art of Heraldry made it possible for families and even individual family members to have their very own coat of arms, including all Whelan descendants.
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