The aim of this site is to provide assistance to genealogists and family historians researching the name Norquoy.

There are details on 780 individuals with the surname Norquoy, these have been compiled mainly from resources held by the Orkney Family History Society (OFHS) and BMD indexes.

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Origins of the name:

There have been a few variants of the name Norquoy, Norquay, Nurquoy, Nurqwoy, Nurkway, Northquoy. Nowadays there just seems to be the two forms - Norquay & Norquoy.

Norquoy is regarded as an Orkney name, a look at the IGI for the British Isles shows 96% of the Norquoys were born in Orkney, and being localised in the parish of South Ronaldsay in particular.

George F Black, The Surnames of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1993) states:
Norquoy: Old Orcadian surname from one or other of the places named N. in the islands. Old Norse: nord kvi "north fold".

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