Torney
Torney is an English,[1][2] Northern-Irish and German[1][3] surname which is most prevalent in Australia[4] and has its highest density in the North of Ireland.[4]
As a habitational surname it may be connected to French locations with the name Tournay or Tournai (from Proto-Celtic turno- "height" with the Gaulish toponymic suffix -acu(m), meaning "location of the hills" or "shore heights")[1][5] – and carried by people arriving after the Norman conquest in 1066[2] – or to a variety of British places named Thorney (with the Old English meaning of "thorn tree island").[1] As an Irish name it is the reduced Anglicized form of Ó Torna (meaning "descendant of Torna", a personal name).[1] In Slavic influenced eastern Germany it is a toponymic surname – derived similarly as in England from the word thorn – and probably referred to a location characterized by thorn bushes and/or trees.[1]
Notable people with the name Torney include:
- George H. Torney (1850–1913), physician in the United States Navy and Army
- Henry Torney (1884–1942), American football player and industrial engineer
- Hugh Torney (Irish republican) (1954–1996), Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) paramilitary leader
- Hugh Torney (footballer) (1909–2000), Australian rules footballer
- Jason Torney (born 1977), retired Australian rules footballer
- Kate Torney (born 19??), Australian journalist
- Rhona Torney (born 19??), Irish camogie player
- Thomas Torney (1915–1998), British Labour Party politician
- Viktor von Strauß und Torney (1809–1899), German princely minister and poet
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f "Torney Family History". ancestry.com. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
English and Irish: habitational name from places called Tournay in Calvados and Orne in northern France.
- ^ a b "Torney Family Crest, Coat of Arms, Name History and Name Meaning". houseofnames.com. Swyrich Corporation. January 2000. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
The name Torney arrived in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
- ^ "Absolute Verteilung des Namens "Torney"". verwandt.de. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
In Deutschland gibt es 74 Telefonbucheinträge zum Namen Torney und damit ca. 197 Personen mit diesem Namen.
- ^ a b "Torney Family History". forebears.io. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ^ "Proto-Celtic ― English (Page 87 of 103)" (PDF). spns.org.uk. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
*turno- height (Page 87 of 103)
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