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• Birth	c.1590-1600
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I2465	Wanicki/Rozhon and Kapusta/Jemiola
  Last Modified	25 Nov 1999 00:00:00
  Children	> 1. János TURDOS-SY, b. c.1620-30, Breznóbánya, Austria-Hungary?
  Family ID	F856	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Turdos-sy family records date back to the XI century. An old Hungarian noble family of hunno-avaric origin. From webpage: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staryjo/tarnay.htm THE GENEALOGY OF THE TARNAY-TURDOS-SY FAMILY [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.