Cormack History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

In the 18th and 19th centuries hundreds of thousands of Irish people immigrated to North American shores. The early settlers were enticed by the promise of their own land, but they were moderately well off in Ireland when they decided to emigrate. Therefore, they were merely carrying out a long and carefully thought out decision. The 1840s saw the emergence of a very different trend: thousands of extremely desperate people crammed into passenger boats hoping to find any type of opportunity. The Irish of this decade had seen their homeland severely stricken by crop failures which resulted in widespread disease and starvation. At whatever time the Irish immigrants came to North America, they were instrumental in the rapid development of the emerging nations of the United States and what would become known as Canada. An exhaustive search of passenger and immigration lists has revealed many persons bearing the name Cormack, or one of its variants:

Cormack Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

• Daniell Cormack, who arrived in Virginia in 1643 2

Cormack Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

• Christopher Cormack, who settled in Annapolis Maryland in 1731

Cormack Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

• Patrick Cormack, who settled in New York State in 1804
• Patrick Cormack, aged 17, who landed in New York, NY in 1804 2
• James, Margaret, Peter, Rebecca Cormack all, who settled in New York State in 1804
• Thomas Cormack, who settled in Boston Massachusetts in 1850

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Cormack Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century

• Mrs. Bridget Cormack, aged 30 who immigrated to Canada, arriving at the Grosse Isle Quarantine Station in Quebec aboard the ship "Lady Campbell" departing from the port of Dublin, Ireland but died on Grosse Isle in September 1847 3
• Mr. Michael Cormack, aged 4 who immigrated to Canada, arriving at the Grosse Isle Quarantine Station in Quebec aboard the ship "Lady Campbell" departing from the port of Dublin, Ireland but died on Grosse Isle in September 1847 3
• Mr. Michael Cormack, aged 30 who immigrated to Canada, arriving at the Grosse Isle Quarantine Station in Quebec aboard the ship "Junior" departing from the port of Liverpool, England but died on Grosse Isle in July 1847 3

Cormack Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century

• Mr. William Cormack, British convict who was convicted in Middlesex, England for life, transported aboard the "Calcutta" in February 1803, arriving in New South Wales, Australia, the settlement was listed as abandoned and most of the convicts transported to Tasmania on the "Queen" in 1804 4
• George Cormack, Scottish convict from Inverness, who was transported aboard the "Asia" on July 29th, 1823, settling in Van Diemen's Land, Australia 5
• John Cormack, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Rajasthan" in 1838 6
• W C Cormack, who landed in Sydney, Australia in 1839
• Andrew Cormack, aged 33, a labourer, who arrived in South Australia in 1852 aboard the ship "Charlotte Jane" 7
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Cormack Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century

• W E Cormack, who landed in Auckland, New Zealand in 1841
• John Cormack, aged 21, a labourer, who arrived in Port Nicholson aboard the ship "Slains Castle" in 1841
• Mr. John Cormack, (b. 1819), aged 21, British settler travelling from London aboard the ship "Slains Castle" arriving in Wellington, New Zealand on 25th January 1841 8
• Mr. John Cormack, Scottish settler travelling from Clyde aboard the ship "Robert Henderson" arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 5th October 1861 8
• Mr. Angus Cormack, Scottish settler travelling from Clyde aboard the ship "Sir William Eyre" arriving in Bluff, Southland, South Island, New Zealand in April 1863 8
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• Edward Bartlett Cormack (1898-1942), American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and producer, best known for his 1927 Broadway play The Racket, and his many collaborations with Howard Hughes and Cecil B. DeMille
• Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924-1998), American (South African-born) physicist, who shared a 1979 Nobel Prize, for developing the CAT scan x-ray technique
• Patrick Thomas Cormack DL, FSA, FRHistS (1939-2024), Baron Cormack, a British politician, historian, journalist and author, Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire (1974-2010)
• Mr. Hamish George Gordon Cormack O.B.E., M.B.E., British Lieutenant Colonel for The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 17th June 2017
• Ben Cormack (b. 1982), British writer and illustrator
• Paul Gregory Cormack (b. 1962), former English cricketer
• Gordon V. Cormack, Canadian computer science professor at the University of Waterloo and co-inventor of Dynamic Markov Compression
• Professor Robin Sinclair Cormack PhD, FSA (b. 1938), British classicist and art historian
• Arthur Cormack (b. 1965), Scottish Gaelic singer and musician
• Robert Cormack (b. 1946), Scottish Emeritus Professor at Queen’s University, Belfast
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