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Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 16th June 2009.
Registration No. 0156.
Arms:
Argent, on a bend Azure
between in chief a
fleur-de-lis Azure and
in base a galleon Gules
three suns Or.
Crest:
An owl rousant Argent,
the dexter claw raised.
Motto:
Scientia Est Potentia;
Timendi Causa Est
Nescire - Knowledge
itself is power;
Ignorance causes fear.
Private
Registration:
American College of
Heraldry, June 1, 2009,
Registration #3289.
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The
arms represent Spanish
(the Galleon), French
(the Fleur-de-Lis), and
Filipino (the Sun)
ancestry and were
assumed by the
descendants of Ramon
Bernardo Bucoy prior to
being registered by the
American College of
Heraldry.
These
armorial bearings are
registered in memory of
Ramon Bernardo Bucoy who
was born in 1905 in
Ayala, Zamboanga,
Philippines and was the
father of six boys and
four girls. He
participated in two Far
Eastern Olympics,
enlisted in the US Army
in 1940, served during
World War II in the
Asiatic-Pacific
Theatre/Philippine
Campaigns, was a POW
during the Japanese
occupation and later
attended the 8th Army
Engineering School in
Fort Belvoir, Va,
completing the
Electrician Combat
Construction Foreman
course. He was
honourably discharged
from the US Army in the
rank of Master Sergeant
and went on to teach at
a university in Manila,
Philippines for a number
of years before
following his children
to the United Stated
where he worked for the
US Postal Service prior
to his retirement. He
passed away in the
Philippines in 1975
whilst visiting his
home.
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