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While Tormeys may have lived in Ireland for 900-1,000 years or more, many experts believe our ancestors were originally Scandinavian Norsemen who settled in the Irish Midlands...
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Over the past 400 years, various members of Tormey families have been recorded, primarily for their political activities against English rule of their homeland...
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Searching for a missing link or lost family member? Visit interactive message boards where you can post research queries and review the messages left by other site visitors...
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Arguably, the greatest and most prominent anti-English voice in the post-Famine years in Ireland belonged to a young priest, Fr. Michael Tormey, a native of County Westmeath...
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Maryland Tormeys can trace their ancestry to Ireland by way of our earliest immigrant ancestor, Patrick Tormey, who emigrated from Ireland to America on a sailing ship in 1816, at the age of 20...
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In addition to our Irish roots, Maryland Tormeys are also connected to a rich early American heritage by way of our matriarch, Jane Jamison, who married Patrick Tormey in 1825...
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Their's is a dramatic story, not unlike many immigrants who proceeded or followed them -- full of success and failures, happiness and sadness, riches made and riches lost...
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No history of Rodeo would be complete without mention of early California pioneers John and Patrick Tormey, brothers who emigrated from Ireland and settled in California in the mid 1800s...
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Lost to the annals of history is the small town of Tormey that, until 1971, thrived in the upper northwest corner of Contra Costa County, about 28 miles outside of San Francisco...
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James and Mary Tormey of Athleague, County Roscommon, sought refuge from the Great Potato Famine by emigrating to America. They ultimately settled in northeastern Pennsylvania...
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A memorial tribute to James Tormey Clare, a Fellow Researcher who made valuable contributions to our knowledge of Tormey history...
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Archbishop of Ardagh during the period of 1232-1237, Giolla-Iosa O'Tormaigh is the earliest known Tormey to have been recorded in written texts, some eight centuries ago ...
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To those Maryland Tormeys with McDivits in their family tree, the colorful history of our McDivit roots is as important as our Tormey heritage. This 1963 narrative documents the family history, dating back to 1817...
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Descendants of Patrick Tormey have lived in Baltimore for over 150 years. View Baltimore as our ancestors saw it six generations ago and see the city it has evolved into today...
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There is perhaps nothing more gratifying to a family historian than finding an old photograph of an ancestor and finally putting a face to a name and a past...
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