McMoriarty History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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• Ireland
• Scotland

Early Origins of the McMoriarty family

Early History of the McMoriarty family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our McMoriarty research. Another 105 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1172 and 1714 are included under the topic Early McMoriarty History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

McMoriarty Spelling Variations

Official documents, crafted by early scribes and church officials, primarily contained names that were spelled according to their pronunciation. This lead to the problem of one name being recorded under several different variations, creating an illusion that a single person was many people. Among the many spelling variations of the surname McMoriarty that are preserved in the archival documents of the time are Moriarty, O'Moriarty, Murtagh, Murtag, McMoriarty and many more.

Early Notables of the McMoriarty family

Notable amongst the family name at this time was

• Father Thady McMoriarty

Migration of the McMoriarty family

Irish families fled the English-colonized Ireland in record numbers during the 19th century for North America. Many of those destitute families died from disease during, and even shortly after, the long journey. Although those that immigrated before the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s often were granted a tract of land, those that arrived later were generally accommodated in urban centers or in work camps. Those in the urban centers would labor in the manufacturing sector, whereas those in work camps would to build critical infrastructures such as bridges, canals, roads, and railways. Regardless of when these Irish immigrants came to North America, they were critical for the rapid development of the young nations of the United States and Canada. Early immigration and passenger lists have recorded many early immigrants bearing the name of McMoriarty: Daniel, Ellen, Eugene, Margaret, Michael, Thomas Moriarty, who all settled in Boston in 1849; James, John, Martin, Maurice, and Michael Moriarty all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860..