THE GENEALOGY OF THE TARNAY-TURDOS-SY
FAMILY
Original Family Genealogy
Many, many years ago, my mom received the following document
in the mail. Although it has been added to significantly, here is what caused
the researcher in me to dig for answers.
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[Alias Turdos-Tardos, Twrdos, Tvrdos, Torda, Tordai, Turdossy, Tverdosi,
Tverdossy, Tverda, Tverdos, etc., the "w" or "v", according to the old Latin
rules, should be read as "u". As a result of Polish influence, the name also
occurred in the form of "Tverdos", and that was changed to "Tarnai" (Tarnay)
on 22 July 1898.]
According to old available records, documents, registers, books and other
written sources located in archives in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, the
TARNAY-TURDOS-SY family is an old Hungarian noble family of hunno-avaric
orgin.
The TURDOS-TARDOS family owned the following places until the 14th Century:
Alsópalajta and Középpalajta in Hont County, Turdos (Tardos)
in Komárom County and Karva in Esztergom County. During the Turkish
invasion in the 16th Century, the family escaped alongside the Garam-Hron
River to the northeast and settled in the city of Breznóbánya-Brezno
and started to used the forename "Bresnai" to the original name "Turdosi".
After the family left the old residence, the village of Turdos, they added
to the name Turdos the "i", later "sy", which in Hungarian indicates the
place of origin. Later, the family moved to the city of
Rozsnóbánya-Roznava located southeast from Breznóbánya,
and from there, the family moved to the east to the villages of Kende-Kendice,
Enyicke-Haniská pri Presove, Sóvár-Solivar, all located
near the city of Eperjes-Presov, and finally the family moved into the city
of Eperjes-Presov, located in today's eastern Czechoslovakia. The family
lost all the immovable properties in old locations, since the region was
150 years under Turkish occupation. According to the oral tradition, Tverdossy
András, the son of Tverdossy Péter, some time at the end of
the 19th Centry, lost all the immovable properties (land, houses, grain mills,
etc.) during one single night by gambling and then escaped to America. His
brother, Tverdos-sy János, after that, changed the family name to
Tarnai.
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DESCENDANTS OF JANOS TURDOS-SY (TARNAY)
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1-- TURDOS-SY, Janos (Abt 1590 - 1600)
....2-- TURDOS-SY, Janos (Abt 1620 - Unknown)
........+MAKULA, Zsuzsanna (Unknown - Unknown)
........3-- TURDOSSY, Janos (1654 - Unknown)
............+MIKOLAI, Anna (Unknown - 1686)
............4-- TURDOSSY, Janos Bresnai (1683 - 1748)
................+DOBOS, Maria (Unknown - 1709)
................5-- TURDOSSY, Anna Bresnai (1708 - Unknown)
................*2nd Wife of Janos Bresnai Turdossy:
................+KOPASZ, Judith (1693 - Unknown)
................5-- TURDOSSY, Katalin Bresnai (1712 - Unknown)
................5-- TURDOSSY, Janos Bresnai (1714 - Unknown)
....................+UJHAZY, Maria (1716 - 1754)
....................6-- TURDOSSY, Janos Bresnai (1737 - Unknown)
....................6-- TURDOSSY, Mihaly Bresnai (1739 - Unknown)
....................6-- TURDOSSY, Marton Bresnai (1741 - Unknown)
....................6-- TURDOSSY, Andras Bresnai (1747 - Unknown)
........................+LIPTAK, Maria (Unknown - Unknown)
........................7-- TURDOSSY, Jozsef Bresnai (1776 - Unknown)
........................7-- TURDOSSY, Andras Bresnai (1777 - Unknown)
........................*2nd Wife of Andras Bresnai Turdossy:
........................+RECSKY, Maria (Unknown - Unknown)
........................7-- TURDOSSY, Jozsef (1783 - 1829)
............................+GARDOSSY, Terez (Unknown - Unknown)
............................8-- TURDOSSY, Jozsef (1812 - Unknown)
............................8-- TURDOSSY, Janos (1815 - Unknown)
............................8-- TURDOSSY, Peter (1820 - 1905)
................................+GOLYAS, Borbala (1830 - 1863)
................................9-- TARNAY-TURDOSSY, Janos (1847 - 1929)
....................................+HANUDELY, Julia (1851 - 1928)
....................................10-- TARNAY, Maria Veronica (1878 -
1954)
.........................................+MURANY, Andrew (1869 - 1940)
.........................................11-- MURANY, Mary Caroline (1898
- 1978)
..............................................+VARGO, Frank John, Sr. (1892
- 1962)
..............................................12-- VARGO, Mary Helen (1917
- 1948)
...................................................+MURAN, Theodore Eugene
(1904 - 1986)
...................................................13-- MURAN, Mary Lucille
........................................................+STARY, John Henry
(1942 - 1996)
........................................................14-- STARY, JoAnne
Marie
........................................................14-- STARY, John
Gregory
........................................................14-- STARY, Katherine
Rachel
........................................................14-- STARY, Christopher
Stanley
........................................................14-- STARY, Carl
Edward
........................................................14-- STARY, James
Francis Theodore
...................................................13-- MURAN, Son (1946
- 1946)
..............................................12-- VARGO, Anna G. (1921 -
1921)
..............................................12-- VARGO, Frank John, Jr.
...................................................+MCCREADY, Ann Olivia
...................................................13-- VARGO, Mary Olivia
...................................................13-- VARGO, Susan
Catherine
........................................................+THOMPSON, David
Allen
........................................................14-- THOMPSON, David
Edward
........................................................14-- THOMPSON, Elizabeth
Marie
...................................................13-- VARGO, Mark Stephen
........................................................+PAYKOS, Melanie
........................................................*2nd Wife of Mark
Stephen Vargo:
........................................................+LINN, Betty
........................................................14-- VARGO, Sutton
Olivia
...................................................13-- VARGO, Ann Francis
........................................................+JONES, David Bruce
........................................................14-- JONES, Katherine
Olivia
...................................................13-- VARGO, John Edward
..............................................12-- VARGO, Virginia Ruth
...................................................+BARAN, Joseph Peter (1923
- 1998)
...................................................13-- BARAN, Michael
Thomas
...................................................13-- BARAN, Robert
Joseph
...................................................13-- BARAN, Jeffrey
Charles
..............................................12-- VARGO, Gregory Paul
...................................................+DILLON, Rita Ann
...................................................13-- VARGO, Beth Ann
........................................................+FORMANEK, Michael
........................................................14-- FORMANEK, Mary
Frances
...................................................13-- VARGO, Katie Marie
...................................................13-- VARGO, Nancy
Margaret
...................................................13-- VARGO, John Dillon
...................................................13-- VARGO, David Dillon
...................................................13-- VARGO, Theresa
Marie
.........................................11-- MURANY, Victoria (1899 -
1976)
..............................................+BEVAN, George Lee (1890 -
1976)
..............................................12-- BEVAN, Victoria
...................................................+PUSHEE, Earl
.........................................11-- MURANY, Helen Gizela (1900
- 1975)
..............................................+ILLES, Paul (1887 - 1927)
..............................................12-- ILLES, Paul II
..............................................12-- ILLES, Edward (1921 -
1995)
..............................................12-- ILLES, Robert
.........................................11-- MURANY, Michael H. (1902 -
1969)
..............................................+BISHOP, Mae W.
(unknown-unknown)
.........................................11-- MURAN, David (1904 - 1981)
..............................................+BARTELL, Frances Elizabeth
(1912 - 1990)
.........................................11-- MURANY, John Paul (1905 -
1938)
..............................................+NAGY, Barbara (1910 - 1991)
.........................................11-- MURANY, Adel Maria (aka Ethel
Murany)
..............................................+MURPHY, Del (1906 - 1985)
..............................................12-- MURPHY, Linda
...................................................+HEIDENREICH, Bruce
...................................................13-- HEIDENREICH,
Matthew
...................................................13-- HEIDENREICH, Julie
..............................................12-- MURPHY, Eileen Marie
.........................................11-- MURANY, Anne
..............................................+PAPE, John Henry, Sr.
..............................................12-- PAPE, Anne (1940 - 1959)
..............................................12-- PAPE, John Henry, Jr.
...................................................+PIPAS, Charlene
...................................................13-- PAPE, Darrin
........................................................14-- PAPE, Brandon
...................................................13-- PAPE, Debbie
........................................................+BELL, Jeffrey
.........................................11-- MURANY, Andrew (1911 - 1959)
..............................................+KOZAK, Gertrude C.
..............................................12-- MURANY, Mary Louise
...................................................+TRISKA, Roy Thomas
...................................................13-- TRISKA, Paul Allen
........................................................+LEVINS, Stephanie
Ellen
...................................................13-- TRISKA, Mary Joanne
........................................................+LEDBURY, Mark
Wayne
...................................................13-- TRISKA, William
Joseph
........................................................+VALUSKA, Jane Ann
...................................................13-- TRISKA, John
Patrick
........................................................+HUNTER, Teresa
Marie
..............................................12-- MURANY, Andrew Joseph
...................................................+VAN BELLEGHEN, Karen
Lynn
...................................................13-- MURANY, Kelly Ann
...................................................13-- MURANY, Jill Suzann
..............................................12-- MURANY, Gertrude Marie
(1948 - 1948)
..............................................12-- MURANY, David William
...................................................+LEISTIKOW, Rachel Ida
....................................10-- TARNAY, Istvan (1879 - 1946)
....................................10-- TARNAY, Louis (1883 - 1965)
....................................10-- TARNAY, Margit (1887 - 1928)
....................................10-- TARNAY, Jozsef (1892 - 1975)
................................9-- TARNAY-TURDOSSY, Andras (1863 -
Unknown)
....................................+KOBULSZKY, Maria (Unknown - Unknown)
....................................10-- TARNAY, Daughter (Unknown -
Unknown)
.........................................+SZABADOS, Husband (Unknown -
Unknown)
.........................................11-- SZABADOS, Son (Unknown -
Unknown)
.........................................11-- SZABADOS, Daughter (Unknown
- Unknown)
................................*2nd Wife of Peter Turdossy:
................................+SEFCSIK, Judith Kiszela (1836 - 1898)
............................8-- TURDOSSY, Istvan (1823 - Unknown)
............................8-- TURDOSSY, Erzsebet (1827 - Unknown)
........................7-- TURDOSSY, Barbara (1787 - Unknown)
........................7-- TURDOSSY, Judith (1788 - Unknown)
........................7-- TURDOSSY, Zsuzsanna (1792 - Unknown)
....................6-- TURDOSSY, Pal Bresnai (1748 - Unknown)
....................6-- TURDOSSY, Judith Bresnai (1751 - Unknown)
....................6-- TURDOSSY, Maria Bresnai (1753 - Unknown)
....................6-- TURDOSSY, Zsuzsanna Bresnai (1756 - Unknown)
....................6-- TURDOSSY, Janos Bresnai (1759 - Unknown)
........................*2nd Wife of Janos Bresnai Turdossy:
........................+LUCSAR, Maria (Unknown - Unknown)
................5-- TURDOSSY, Andras Bresnai (1717 - Unknown)
................5-- TURDOSSY, Gyorgy Bresnai (1721 - Unknown)
................5-- TURDOSSY, Judith Bresnai (1724 - Unknown)
................5-- TURDOSSY, Maria Bresnai (1727 - Unknown)
............4-- TURDOSSY, Rachel (Unknown - Unknown)
............4-- TURDOSSY, Jozsef (Unknown - Unknown)
........3-- TURDOSSY, Mihaly (1656 - Unknown)
........3-- TURDOSSY, Gyorgy (1658 - Unknown)
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