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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.
Raya
is the
daughter of
Amanda
Katherine
McClurg
(registration
no. 0212) and Robert Plummer.
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 is a cant
and nod to the
name Raya
Grace. The
rays as a cant
for Raya and
the number
being five for
the 5 letters
in Grace.
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