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.

1. 2. János TURDOS-SY   b. c.1620-30, Breznóbánya, Austria-Hungary?.

Protestant

1. 3. János TURDOSSY   b. 1654, Breznóbánya, Austria-Hungary?.
2. 4. Mihály TURDOS-SY   b. 1656.
3. 5. György TURDOS-SY   b. 1658.

Protestant

1. 6. János BRESNAI TURDOSSY   b. 11 Jul 1683, Breznóbánya, Austria-Hungary; d. 5 May 1748, Rozsnyóbánya, Austria-Hungary.
2. 7. Ráchel TURDOSSY  
3. 8. József TURDOSSY  

Protestant

1. 9. János BRESNAI TURDOSSY   b. 26 Oct 1714, Rozsnyóbánya, Austria-Hungary.
2. 10. Katalin BRESNAI TURDOSSY   b. 1712.
3. 11. András BRESNAI TURDOSSY   b. 1717.
4. 12. György BRESNAI TURDOSSY   b. 1721.
5. 13. Judith BRESNAI TURDOSSY   b. 1724.
6. 14. Mária BRESNAI TURDOSSY   b. 1727.

1. 15. Anna BRESNAI TURDOSSY   b. 1708.