FAMILY OF JOHN CURLEY & ELIZA THARPE

FAMILY CRESTS

Curley

Tharpe

Curley

The name Curley is derived from the Gaelic MacToirdealbhaigh Sept of the Irish Counties of Antrim and Armagh. The name means 'son of Turlough'. Turley, Torley, Kerley, Terence and Terry are among the variants of this name but Curley is mainly found in Ireland in the Counties of Galway and Roscommon. where the placenames Ballymacurley and Curley's Island can be found.
 

Tharp

The name Tharp in Ireland is usually of immigrant origin having been introduced into the country by settlers who arrived from England especially during the seventeenth century. It is in the Northern Counties as well as in County Dublin that the majority of descendants bearing this name in Ireland can today be found.