Tour History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Tour family

The surname Tour was first found in Languedoc, where this acclaimed family held a family seat since ancient times. Château Latour is a French wine estate, rated as a First Growth under the 1855 Bordeaux Classification. It lies at the very southeastern tip of the commune of Pauillac in the Médoc region to the north-west of Bordeaux.

Early History of the Tour family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Tour research. Another 267 words (19 lines of text) covering the years 1259, 1365, 1600, 1610, 1618, 1629, 1688, 1743 and 1789 are included under the topic Early Tour History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Tour Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Latour, Tour, Latourre, Tours, Toure, Tors, La Tour, De Latour, de la Toure, de Tour and many more.

Early Notables of the Tour family

Jean-Pierre Latour, Mayor of Aspet and the Deputy of Comminges

Migration of the Tour family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Susanne Latour who settled in New York in 1700; and Charles Thomas Latour who settled in Philadelphia in 1880.

Contemporary Notables of the name Tour (post 1700) +

Louis E. La Tour, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1912 (alternate), 1916, 1920 (alternate), 1924 (alternate); Candidate for Presidential Elector for New York, 1920 1

Sources +

The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 7) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html