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Information about the families of Turcq,
Turque, Turc and Turck in France
Map of France
These first two links are to websites that show the distribution of the Tur(c)
names in France:
http://genealogie.europe1.fr/v2/welcome/frame_europe1.asp
Repartition link for surname Turcq:
http://www.notrefamille.com/lastnames/lastnames_stats.asp?nom=turcq&periode=1
Repartition link for surname Turk (just change the code where
it says nom= to the surname you want to see):
http://www.notrefamille.com/lastnames/lastnames_stats.asp?nom=turk&periode=1
The French Phonebook:
http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/pj.cgi?
Note from a French Researcher Cécilia-Jeanette
Lakin
From Rod Walker e-mail catu11us@pacbell.net
Hi, Nancy. If you don't know it, check out this site:
http://hometown.aol.com/GHugono/keim.htm
This has to do with a Keim family, and specifically with an Elizabeth Keim
(1721-1764). However, her maternal line descends from Arnulph Le
Turk. The interesting thing is that they date his arrival in France at
c.1490. He shows as the father of Hugo (c.1517-1554), and then on down the
line. This also makes sense since there should have been no need for
Francis I to confirm a grant of arms which was then already 400 years old.
This site show the family name
changing to De Turk in the 4th generation (at least in that line). It also
give Khair-ad-din (Hayradin)'s other name as Silotin. Knowing how the
French tend to mangle Islamic names, what "Silotin" actually might be
is anyone's guess, but a corruption of "Saladin" can't be ruled
out. However, the date 1490 would suggest he was called "Le
Turk" because he was from Ottoman Turkey. I'm not sure these people
have any interest in your family beyond the one line, but they might be worth
checking with. See also one other note, below.
By the way, there are many, many individuals named Le Turk, De Turk, showing up
when you search under those names. There's at least one other site related
to your inquiries: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Lead5Alpha/gendata/gp1245.htm.
There are not doubt others.
French Turk History translated into
English:
The ... Turk family ... may be traced by history and
tradition to the year
1105 A.D. ... The progenitor of this family was brought to France by Count
Kaimund (you of course mean Raimund) of Toulouse from Palestine, where he was
taken prisoner ... [27 Aug 1105 at the third battle of Ramleh]. He was a Turkish
Emir [of the Damascene Turks] ... and his name was Hayraddin [Saladin]. [His
father would have been Sultan Saladin]. ... In France, however, he assumed the
name of Arnulph le [Turque] Turk, that is Arnulph the Turk. He was knighted
and admitted into the nobility. He bore on his shield as well as on his
helmet a lion holding the sun, the sun signifying the deity of the Turks,
the lion valor or strength. ... King Francis I renewed the grant [of arms]
to Reginald le Turk. The copy of this grant at Nismes of 1529 is still to
be found in the archives of Paris. Reginald was then the only one of the
family. He married Louison de Foix. He was the Mayor of Nismes and at his
death in 1554 was survived by two sons. Their names were Victor and Hugo le
Turk. The descendants of Victor remained in the province of Languedoc,
where the name finally died away. Hugo on the other hand settled at
Rochelle in the northwestern part of France, where he became a master
mechanic. He married Margat de Privas. He died in 1601 and was survived by
four sons, Michael, Harman, Robert and Sancred de Turk. ... The family
name... spread itself to other parts of ... Alsace and Lorraine. ...
[ref.'European Heraldic and Family Data' in library at
Versailles and
Paris,VIII, 192]." - "History and Genealogy of the DeTurk DeTurck
Family,"
Eugene P. DeTurk, Kutztown, PA: DeTurk Family Association, 1934.
From Marcel EVRARD email:
firefly0909@hotmail.com
http://users.skynet.be/maevrard/GENEALOGIE.html
Si ces recherches nous ramènent en l'an 1729 (Georges EVRARD né le
10/03/1729), nous avons retrouvé une piste qui remonte à 1594 (un certain
Quétin Leturcque EVRARD de Burnontige, lequel a épousé Damide AUGUSTIN le
09/01/1594 !!!) ; mais des incertitudes persistent quant à la filiation exacte
de celle-ci (ces renseignements n'apparaissent donc pas sur ce site). Des
informations à ce sujet pourraient être fournies à la demande.
Quant à l'appellation « Leturcque - le Turc » que l'on retrouve à plusieurs
reprises dans les archives (papa m'a certifié qu'au début du XXe siècle, on
parlait encore d'un EVRARD « le turc » à Grand-Trixhe, son origine reste
encore un mystère total. Tout ce que je sais, c'est qu'on appelle les habitants
de Faymonville (Waimes) « les turcs » depuis la nuit des temps.
Toute information à ce sujet serait, bien entendu, hautement appréciée.
Translated means: If this research brings back for us in l'an 1729
(George EVRARD born 10/03/1729), we found a track which goes up at 1594 (certain
Quétin Leturcque EVRARD of Burnontige, which married Damide AUGUSTIN the
09/01/1594!!!) ; but of uncertainties persist as for the exact filiation of this
one (this information thus did not n'apparaissent on this site). Information on
this subject could be provided to the request. As for l appellation "Leturcque
- the Turk" that l'on finds on several occasions in the files (dad m'a
certified qu'au beginning of the XXe century, one still spoke to d'un EVRARD
"Turkish" with Large-Trixhe, his origin remains still a total mystery.
All that I know, c'est qu'on calls the inhabitants of Faymonville (Waimes)"Turkish"
since the night of times. Any information on this subject, of course, would be
highly appreciated.
The
TURCOTT surname
in France
The TURCOTTE surname in France http://pages.infinit.net/roxtur/turcotte.htm
TURCK
family in MOSELLE France
From "dominique turcq"
<dominique@turcq.net:
I promise some day you get a
longer line of thoughts and some explanation about what I know of our Turcq origins; In short there are plenty of turcq in a village called pont de nieppe (department 59 if you want to look at the telephone registry over the INternet) in northern France where my family originates from. Yours might too, althought nothing is certain, there are several roots for the turcs turcq etc along the road of the first cruisade , which went from Bouillon, now in Belgium, to the middle east. When the soldiers came back they were nicknamed the turcs, probably because they were dirty and brutal..... and that explains why you have several villages called turckheim, especially in Germany and France. They decided to stop somewhere and settle down, in turc village (the translation for
turkheim). Pont de Nieppe is close to Bouillon, so I suppose my ancesters were soldiers, a long time ago. I don't have pictures from that time...obviously, but I attach one of 1916 with my father, the small boy, and my Grand mother, the women behind him. My grand mother is in black since my grand father just died at war, the four other people I don't know who they are.
I located
these names at the website
http://rcombes.ifrance.com/rcombes/
Avez-vous eu un
ancêtre
DECAPITE
Pendant la Révolution
?
TURQUAIN Pierre,
père, notable de la commune de Montbrison, département de la Moire, condamné
à mort comme fédéraliste, le .. frimaire an 2, par le tribunal
révolutionnaire de Feurs.
TURQUET Marie Anne, âgée de 65 ans, né à St Pol, demeurant à
Frévent, condamnée à mort à Arras le 18 floréal an II
trouver
TRUQUET Jacques,
garçon perruquier, âgé de 21 ans, natif de Montbrison, domicilié à Lyon,
département du Rhône, condamné à mort comme contre-révolutionnaire, le 15
frimaire an 2, par la commission révolutionnaire de Lyon.
A site to try: It showed 150
Frencyh researchers on the surname Turcq!
http://www.geneanet.org/result.php3?country=FRA&name=Turcq&info=&start=&end=&nbindi=&type=&source=&place=&subregion=®ion=&x=19&y=9
Two men beheaded during french
revolution :
TURC Michel, cultivateur et cabaretier, domicilié à Grillon,
département de Vaucluse, condamné à mort le 29 messidor an 2,
par la commission populaire d'Orange, comme contre-
révolutionnaire.
TURCQ Louis, cordonnier et soldat au ci-devant régiment de
Chartes infanterie, domicilié à Bergues-St-Vinox, département
du Nord, condamné à mort comme émigré, le 14 mai 1793, par la
commission militaire d'Arras.
Amicalement-Jean-Pierre
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The French Turk
Family History
Hans Bahlow's book on German surnames for Türck has a "see
reference" to Thürck.
He says it is a "young name as the Turks became known only in the
16th
century." In Germany this line seems to have originated with French
Huguenot
refugee descendants of Hugo de Turk, who died in northern France in
1601.
His grandson, Jacob de Turk, crossed the border from France into
Germany
in 1609 and joined the Huguenot congregation in Frankenthal. After
the
revocation of the edict o f Nantes in 1688 the Huguenot scattered into
various
nations. The French army pursued the refugees into the Palatinate
where
they burned Frankenthal and other Huguenot communities to the ground
in
1689 . Emigrees fled east as well as west. There is a Huguenot or
Walloon
museum in a Berlin church. The Elector of Brandenburg held them in
high
esteem. Probably this is the source of our Turk lineage that spread
from
the region of Berlin eastward into the Neumark.
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