Troy Family Page
Welcome to The Troy Family Page, which furnishes historical detail beyond the site index, exploring three generations of Troys in the line of Oin Troy of Ireland.
6. Hannah Matilda Troy (Matthews) --Born Sept.2, 1819. According to her granddaughter, Anna Blann, Hannah Troy, wife of Thomas Matthews and mother of Solomon Matthews, was of Irish descent, as were her parents, Solomon Troy and Margaret Dulin. She and Thomas had three children: Josiah (b.1841), Thomas H.(b.1845) and Solomon Matthews (1850-1936) who married Annie Mënck. Hannah died sometime after 1880. The 1870 Maryland census shows her in Talbot Co. at age 52 and the 1880 census shows her age as 64. Her birth date of 1819 is given in the Troy family bible.
7. Solomon Troy --Born in Ireland on May 3, 1789, Solomon Troy and his two sisters immigrated to Maryland from County Cork (probably between the years 1800-1810 since Solomon married in Maryland in 1810); however, it is not clear whether County Cork was simply the port whence they departed or their home town. According to the genealogical notes of Solomon's great-grandaughter, Anna Matthews Blann, one of Solomon's sisters married a Willis from Oxford (MD) and had a son named McKenny Willis. The other sister married a Stuart and had a son, George Stuart, and a daughter, Mollie Stuart, who held the record for the longest service as a Post mistress in this country. (The Troy family bible notes that Mary Stuart died on July 20, 1828, so Mary is likely the name of this sister of Solomon Troy.) According to the Troy Family bible, Solomon and Margaret had nine children: Mary Ann (b.1811), William (b.1812), Margaret (b. 1813), Henry (b.1815), Hannah (b.1819), Huah (b.1821) and (another) Huah (b.1824). Daughter Mary Ann appears in the household of Solomon and Mary Troy on the 1850 census as Mary A. Whorton (age 39) with no husband but two children: Richard Whorton, age 16, and Owen Whorton, age 12. Marriage records show Mary Ann had remarried a Richard Martin in 1841. The 1850 census for Oxford MD shows that Hannah's brother, Henry Troy, was a shoemaker, married to Susan A. (with young daughter, Margaret) and lists Solomon Troy as a farmer (61) married to Mary (49), with 200 acres of land in Talbot Co. After bearing nine children, including Hannah Troy, Margaret died and Solomon remarried Kisshan Ann (Ann Keziah) Pratt on Oct.6,1836, who bore one daughter, (Francis?) Ann Troy, in 1838, the mother dying a few days later. Solomon was still alive in 1842, when his son, Henry, signed these dates in the Troy bible. The 1850 MD census shows that Solomon lived on to marry a third time; marriage records indicate that he married Mary Hennessy in 1840. Solomon died sometime after 1850. The 1800 Talbot Co. census includes one John Dulin, likely Solomon's father-in-law. Solomon Troy's silouette portrait was rendered by an artist at a camp meeting in Denton (probably in the 1830s or 40s), and was found nearly a century later and given to his great-granddaughter, Anna Blann.
8. Oin Troy --Oin (Owen) and Nancy Troy, of Ireland, were the parents of Solomon Troy. They were probably born around 1770. Beyond their mention in the Troy family Bible as Solomon's parents, no further information is known about them or their parents. It is likely that they lived and died in Ireland as they do not appear in any Maryland or immigration records.
About the Troy Family origins: The Troy family can be traced to Ireland, England and Northern France. In Ireland, the name sometimes appears in old documents as Trehy or O'Trehy, thought by some to be a phonetic rendering of the Irish O'Troighthigh, presumably derived from the Irish word troightheach meaning a "foot soldier". In the 1659 Irish census the name is spelt Trohy. The name also appears in French as de Troye, and has also been gaelicized in Ireland as de Treo. The Troy family, though never too numerous in Ireland, is perhaps most abundant in County Tipperary. One of the oldest place in Ireland associated with the name is "Castle Troy" in Limerick (built during the reign of Henry III (1216-1272) by the O’Briens clan), the town where Henry Troy was Provost in 1197. There is also persuasive evidence of the family name having come to Ireland from France in places such as Troyes, as far back as the Norman Invasion of 1066. The Heugonot Library in London list 21 Troys who fled from France because of Religious persecution in later centuries. Many of these settled in England, but some went on to Ireland, settling in Cork and Kilkenny. The best known Irishman by this name was the Most Reverend Thomas Troy (1739-1823) Archbishop of Dublin.