Home   |   Customer Service   |   Site Map   |   Surname Search   |   How To Buy

Shopping Cart
0 Items
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE - no headaches!
Share |
Decrease Font Size Text Increase Font Size
An excerpt from www.HouseOfNames.com archives copyright © 2000 - 2013

Where did the Irish Doorly family come from? What is the Irish Doorly family crest and coat of arms? When did the Doorly family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Doorly family history?

 More

Spelling variations of this family name include: Doorley, Dorley, O'Dorely, O'Doorley, Dorly and many more.

First found in Galway, where they held a family seat as a sept of Ui Maine (Hy Main) one of the most important groups of clanns in Irish history, after the Norman Conquest of England, was strongly influenced by the invasion of Strongbow in 1172, almost equal to the enormous Irish cultural impact on England Scotland, Wales and the whole of Europe before the Norman Conquest from the 1st to 7th centuries. Many Irish clanns, sept names were intermixed and family groupings became almost indistinguishable. This family name was found later in County Offaly.


 More

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Doorly research. Another 143 words(10 lines of text) covering the years 179 and 1798 are included under the topic Early Doorly History in all our PDF Extended History products.

 More

More information is included under the topic Early Doorly Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.

 More

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands..

 More

  • Henry Doorly (1879-1961), Barbados-born, American engineer and publisher, Chairman of the World Publishing Company and publisher of the Omaha World-Herald in Omaha, Nebraska
  • The Most Reverend Edward Doorly (1868-1950), Irish Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Elphin from 1926 to 1950
  • Victoria Eleanor Louise Doorly (1880-1950), British writer of children's books, winner of the the 1939 Carnegie Medal in Literature for her book The Radium Woman
  • Lieutenant Gerald S. Doorly, British Royal Navy officer British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, eponym of Mount Doorly, Antarctica


 More

Popular Family Crest Products
 
Doorly Armorial History With Coat of Arms
Doorly Coat of Arms & Surname History Package
Doorly Family Crest Image (jpg) Heritage Series
Doorly Coat of Arms/Family Crest Key-chain
Doorly Coat of Arms/Family Crest Coffee Mug
Doorly Armorial History with Frame
Doorly Framed Surname History and Coat of Arms
More Family Crest Products
 More

 More

  1. MacLysaght, Edward. The Surnames of Ireland 3rd Edition. Dublin: Irish Academic, 1978. Print. (ISBN 0-7165-2278-0).
  2. MacLysaght, Edward. Irish Families Their Names, Arms and Origins 4th Edition. Dublin: Irish Academic, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-7165-2364-7).
  3. O'Hart, John. Irish Pedigress 5th Edition in 2 Volumes. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1976. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0737-4).
  4. Browning, Charles H. Americans of Royal Descent. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
  5. McDonnell, Frances. Emigrants from Ireland to America 1735-1743 A Transcription of the report of the Irish House of Commons into Enforced emigration to America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-1331-5).
  6. Burke, Sir Bernard. General Armory Of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Ramsbury: Heraldry Today. Print.
  7. Heraldic Scroll and Map of Family names and Origins of Ireland. Dublin: Mullins. Print.
  8. Hickey, D.J. and J.E. Doherty. A New Dictionary of Irish History form 1800 2nd Edition. Dublin: Gil & MacMillian, 2003. Print.
  9. Woodham-Smith, Cecil. The Great Hunger Ireland 1845-1849. New York: Old Town Books, 1962. Print. (ISBN 0-88029-385-3).
  10. Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
  11. ...

The Doorly Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Doorly Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

This page was last modified on 5 February 2013 at 16:26.

©2000-2013 Swyrich Corporation. See Terms of Use for details.
houseofnames.com is an internet property owned by Swyrich Corporation.


Sign Up


100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE - no headaches!