Researching James Tory
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 108 people with the Tory surname? In that year Tory was ranked number 3471 for popularity in the UK. |
The name James means "one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of James Tory on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for James Tory and the Tory Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 191 people with the Tory surname in the UK? Tory is now ranked number 3863 for popularity in the UK. |
Tory Family History Databases
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Tory Forums
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Search the Ellis Island Database for information on James Tory. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called James Tory
James Cranswick Tory
James Cranswick Tory (October 24, 1862 – June 26, 1944) was a Nova Scotia businessman and politician. He was born in 1862 to Robert Kirk Tory and Anorah Ferguson in Guysborough County and lived in the village of Guysborough. He attended McGill University in Montreal and worked at Sun Life Assurance Company. In 1894, he married Caroline Whitman. Tory served as a Liberal MLA for Guysborough County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1911 to 1925. He was a minister without portfolio in the province's Executive Council from 1921 to 1925. Tory was appointed the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and served from 1925 to 1930. He died in Halifax.
Tory's younger brothers were Henry Marshall Tory, founding president of the University of Alberta and the National Research Council of Canada, and John A. Tory Sr. (1869–1950).
A portrait of him hangs in the Tupper Building, Dalhouise University, Nova Scotia.
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