Tours History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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France

Early Origins of the Tours family

The surname Tours 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 Tours family

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Tours 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 Tours family

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Migration of the Tours 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 Tours (post 1700) +

Berthold Tours (1838-1897), British musician and musical editor, whose baptismal name was Bartolomeus was son of Bartolomeus Tours, organist of the church of St. Lawrence, Rotterdam