Historical Contributions
This page includes historical contribution by individuals with the Rury Surname. When I receive new information it will be posted here. If you want to have your information included please email me with the subject: Rury History.
Baile Rury is said to have died around the time of Christ. Which makes him the oldest
known Rury. He was immortalized by William Butler Yeats in the poem Baile and Aillinn.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet lived in London and in Sligo (northern Ireland),
where many of his poems are set. Yeates was fascinated by Irish legend and the occult and in
the poem we find the source of the legend. "They have heaped the stones above his grave In
Muirthemne, and over it In changeless Ogham letters writ Baile, that was of Rury’s seed."
Ogham is an alphabetic system of inscribed notches used to write Old Irish, chiefly on the edges of memorial stones, from the fifth to the early seventh century.
Ruarai or Alan Lord of Garmoran & The North Isles d. 1284 Scotland. Also listed as Rory or Roderic. Also Lord of Vist and Barra.
Brother to Donald of the Isles (the McDonalds). Earliest Scottish Rury.
Edward Rury, the Earliest U.S. Rury circa 1664.
Albert nmn Rury (b. 19 Feb 1864 Percy, Randolph, IL, d. 1941) came to California in 1892 and was a pioneer settler in Azusa in 1894 and established a feed and fuel store on Azusa Ave. Azusa was only one street when he and his brother arrived. He later turned the business over to his brother William Isaac.
Albert Issaac Rury (b.25 June 1913 Azusa, CA, d. June 1983 Santa Maria, CA) worked for 30 years at Lockheed including work on the U2 spy plane.
