Turgis History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Turgis family

The surname Turgis was first found in Normandy (French: Normandie), the former Duchy of Normandy.

Interestingly, we must look to ancient England to find one of the first records of the family. Turgot (d. 1115) was "Bishop of St. Andrews, born in Lincolnshire, and belonged to a Saxon family of good position. The name occurs in Domesday Book among the landowners of that county. After the Norman Conquest he was detained as a hostage in the castle of Lincoln, but, having made his escape, he took ship at Grimsby for Norway, where he found favour with the king and became prosperous. Returning home some years afterwards, he was shipwrecked on the English coast and lost all his property. He then resolved to become a monk. " 1

Early History of the Turgis family

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Turgis Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Turgeon, Turgis, Tourgis, Turgot, Turgan and others.

Early Notables of the Turgis family

Notable amongst the family in this period was Michel-Étienne Turgot, a French magistrate who was born in Paris in 1690. He was of an ancient family, distinguished in their nobility, who in the thirteenth century, was mainly established in Brittany and since then has been primarily in Normandy. He was President of the second chamber of appeal in the Parisian parliament at the time he was named provost of the entrepreneurs in 1729...
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Turgis Ranking

In France, the name Turgis is the 4,510^th most popular surname with an estimated 1,500 - 2,000 people with that name. 2

Turgis migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Turgis Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Symon Turgis, aged 30, who arrived in Virginia in 1618 aboard the ship "William and Thomas" 3

Citations +

Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print
http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)