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Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 5th Feb. 2019.
Registration No. 0486
(Vol.3).
Arms:
Per chevron Sable and
Azure, on a chevron
Argent between in chief
a sword erect Or between
two lions rampant
respectant Argent, armed
and langued Gules, and
in base a sea horse
Argent, crined Or, three
trefoils Vert, the whole
within a bordure Argent.
Crest:
An arm embowed proper,
vested Or, cuffed
Argent, the hand
grasping a Celtic long
cross in bend sinister
Sable.
Motto: Above
the achievement:
Cumimhnigh O Tuathchair
and Below
the achievement: Gloria
Deo.
Registration:
Certificate of arms
#3649 from the South
African Bureau of
Heraldry, August 2007,
amended April 2008.
Further
Registration:
United States Heraldic
Registry, 25 May 2008,
#20080525B.
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The
armiger was born in El
Paso, Texas, USA and
descends from the
Tuckers of the Charles
City County area of
Virginia who migrated to
North Carolina. He is a
clan genealogist of Éile
O'Carroll and Clan Cián,
the Irish clan headed by
the O'Carroll/Carroll
family. He is a Member
of the Genealogical
Society of Ireland, a
member of Clergy and a
participant in the
Tucker Surname Project
at Family Tree DNA. He
holds both Associate and
Bachelor level college
degrees.
The escutcheon is
divided per chevron
Sable and Argent, and on
the chevron appear three
trefoils Vert; these are
intended to represent
the many Irish lines in
the armiger’s ancestry
(O’Carroll, Purcell,
Coleman, Malone, Magill,
McCarty, Adams, and
others).
The two lions Argent and
the sword Or are
representative of the
heraldic charges of The
O’Carroll, Ard Tiarna
(High Prince) of Eile
O’Carroll and Clan Cian,
and Chief of the Name
who has honoured the
armiger by giving
permission for the
charges to be used on
his own heraldic
achievement
acknowledging a familial
relationship to him, and
to the O’Carroll family,
and to acknowledge the
armiger’s service to
Clan Cian.
The chevron itself is
Argent, and the base of
the escutcheon is Azure
with a seahorse Argent.
These elements are found
on many of the Tucker
arms as well as variants
such as O’Tuachair
(which originated in the
Ely-O’Carroll region of
Mid-Ireland), Tooker and
others.
The crest is a variation
of the crest found on
some Tucker arms. In
those cases, the arm is
typically straight and
holding an arrow proper.
The armiger chose a more
peaceful posture and
replaced the arrow with
a Celtic long cross to
represent his being a
member of the Clergy,
and his other Celtic
family lines (Johnstone,
MacBean, Pugh, Murray,
and others).
The bordure Argent is a
feature to add
uniqueness. It is the
same metal colour as
most Tucker arms, and
most O’Carroll/Carroll
arms, however bordures
are not common in those
designs, thus the
uniqueness.
The mottos above the
Crest reads: Cumimhnigh
O Tuathchair (Irish
Gaelic for remember
O’Tuachair) and below
the escutcheon Gloria
Deo (Latin for Glory to
God).
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