| ![Show Contents]() Storz History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
- Origins Available:
England
Scotland
Early Origins of the Storz familyThe surname Storz was first found in Angus (Gaelic: Aonghas), part of the Tayside region of northeastern Scotland, and present day Council Area of Angus, formerly known as Forfar or Forfarshire, where they held a family seat at Craquhy near Dunnichen, a small village 3.5 miles from Forfar on the east coast where Alexander Sturrock held part of the village of Craquhy. Early History of the Storz familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Storz research. Another 36 words (3 lines of text) covering the year 1448 is included under the topic Early Storz History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Storz Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Sturrock, Sturrok, Storrak, Storrack, Storek, Sturrack, Sturrach and many more. Early Notables of the Storz familyMore information is included under the topic Early Storz Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
| Storz migration to the United States | + |
Storz Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Gottlieb Storz, aged 39, who landed in America in 1839 1
- J F Storz, aged 28, who arrived in Baltimore, Maryland in 1847 1
- Culins Storz, aged 20, who arrived in New York, NY in 1851 1
| Contemporary Notables of the name Storz (post 1700) | + |
- Robert Todd Storz (1924-1964), American founder of the Storz Radio Empire and is credited with being the father of the Top 40 radio format, grandson of Gottlieb Storz
- Carl August Guido Storz, American inventor of Sorz, a type of hose coupling in 1882 which is still used today on fire hoses in firefighting applications
- Gottlieb Storz (1852-1939), American founder of the Storz Brewery in 1876 which operated until 1972 and then reopened in 2013
- Harold E. Storz, American politician, Mayor of Royal Oak, Michigan, 1925-29 2
- Sybill Storz (b. 1937), German businesswoman, managing director of the Karl Storz Group; she holds over 100 patents in the field of airway management
- Harry Werner Storz (1904-1982), German silver medalist sprinter at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- 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)
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, January 7) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
 |
