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McClurg Family
Badge:
A torch
enflamed and
two arrows in
saltire point
upward Or all
grasped within
a raven’s claw
erased to
sinister
Proper.
Becker Family Badge: Emerging
from a barrel
Proper banded
Azure a racoon
holding in its
dexter paw a
bunch of
concord grapes
Proper.
Mara
is the
daughter of
Kelly
Elizabeth
McClurg
(registration
no. 0211) and Joshua Nayes.
The
ravens
transfixed
refer to a
Scottish story
in which a
widow's sons
by three
different men
performed
archery to
show prowess
with weapons
for Robert the
Bruce while he
was on the run
from the
English. The
brother's
names were
Murdoch, McKie
and McClurg.
The brothers
joined The
Bruce's army
until he
became Robert
I, King of
Scotland.
The
arms are based
on the arms of
Frederick
Henry McClurg
(registration
no. 0208) and differenced in base with a
double cant
for her name.
First the use
of Sanguine in
base as the
closest
tincture to
maroon (Mara
Rune). Second
the use of the
Rune of Mara –
reported to be
the symbol of
a Slavic
goddess
representing
the death and
rebirth of
nature.
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