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Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family / A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára ISSN 1715-152X
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The website Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family / A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára <www.totosy.com> (ISSN 1715-152X) contains transcripts of previously published material, transcripts of archival and family documents, and genealogies of the Tötösy de Zepetnek family (Tivtoßÿ de Zepethnek: Tötösy, Töttösy, Töttössy, Tüttössy, Tötössy, Töttösi, Tötösi), its collateral families (Haidekker, Preglej, Seregély, Szirányi de Öttömös, Harabasevszky, Toms, Grant, Banting, etc.), and records of other non-related Töt(t)ös(s)y(i) families. The material of totosy.com is a revised and extended version of Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára / Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family. Szeged: József Attila Tudományegyetem, 1993. ISBN 963-481-914-1. totosy.com is listed in and its material is archived in the Library and Archives Canada Electronic Collection <http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/205/300/records_totosy/index.html>. ©Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára / Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family. Szeged: József Attila Tudományegyetem, 1993. & Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family / A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára <www.totosy.com> (ISSN 1715-152X) (1993-), all rights reserved.

Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family / A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára <www.totosy.com> (ISSN 1715-152X)
    Summary <http://www.totosy.com/summary.html>: List of Tötösy de Zepetnek and Branch Families and List of Other Tötösy Families, Etymology of Tötös and Tötösy, Selected Documents in English Translation
    Összefoglalás/Summary <http://www.totosy.com/osszefoglalas.html>: List of Tötösy de Zepetnek and Branch Families & List of Other Tötösy Families /A Tötösy de Zepetnek család ágainak és más Tötösy családok listái
    Part I./I. Rész <http://www.totosy.com/partone.html>: Etymology of Tötös and Tötösy, List of Tötös Geographical Locations / Tötös és Tötösy etimológia, Tötös helységek összeírása
    Part II./II. Rész <http://www.totosy.com/parttwo.html>: List of Tötösy Families and Individuals by County in the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century /
Tötösy családok és családszemélyek megyénkénti összeírása a középkortól a 17. századig
    Part III./III. Rész <http://www.totosy.com/partthree.html>: Published Sources about the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family and Family Members / Kiadott adatok a Zepetneki Tötösy családról és családtagokról
    Part IV./IV. Rész <http://www.totosy.com/partfour.html>: Transcripts and Excerpts of Archival and Family Documents of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family / Zepetneki Tötösy levéltári és családi okiratok és kivonatai
    Part V./V. Rész <http://www.totosy.com/partfive.html>: Published and Archival Sources about Tötösy Families and Family Members / Megjelent és levéltári adatok Tötösy családokról és személyekröl
    Part VI./VI. Rész <http://www.totosy.com/partsix.html>: Genealogy of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family / A Zepetneki Tötösy család genealogiája
    Part VII./VII. Rész <http://www.totosy.com/partseven.html>: Material about and Genealogies of Tötösy de Zepetnek Collateral Families (Haidekker, Harabasevszky, Preglej) / Zepetneki Tötösy oldalági családok adatai és genealogiái (Haidekker, Harabasevszky, Preglej)
    Part VIII./VIII. Rész <http://www.totosy.com/parteight.html>: Material about and Genealogies of Tötösy de Zepetnek Collateral Families (Seregély, Szirányi de Öttömös, Thassy-Plávenszky) / Zepetneki Tötösy oldalági családok adatai és genealogiái (Seregély, Öttömösi Szirányi, Thassy-Plávenszky)
    Part IX./IX. Rész <http://www.totosy.com/partnine.html>: Tötösy de Zepetnek Collateral Families' Data and Genealogies (Grant, Toms) / Zepetneki Tötösy oldalági családok adatai és leszármazásai (Grant, Toms)
    Appendix/Függelék <http://www.totosy.com/appendix.html>: The Töttössy de Egyházasfalu et Bástifalu Family / Az Egyházasfalvi és Bástifalui Töttössy család
    Works Cited/Források <http://www.totosy.com/workscited.html>

Summary

1) list of Tötösy and the Tötösy de Zepetnek family and its branches, 2) etymology of the place name Tötös and the surname Tötösy,
3) Selected Tötösy de Zepetnek archival documents, 4) list of further Töt(t)ös(s)y families

Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family / A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára (ISSN 1715-152X) is a compilation of published, archival, and other documentary sources of and material about the Tötösy de Zepetnek family, its genealogies including selected collateral families. Tötösy de Zepetnek is a Latin form of the surname following the history of Hungary where until 1848 the official government language and thus most documentation has been in Latin; its Hungarian form is Zepetneki Tötösy. The name has been spelled in many ways over the centuries as the documents in this work show. Throughout this work the name's simplest form, "Tötösy," is used unless differentiation is necessary to distinguish between specific persons and/or families. The family's origin is in the County of Zala, in Western Hungary, where in the villages of Pacsa, Tötös, Zepeth, and Kerecseny Tötösy families settled prima occupatio at the time of the conquest of the Danube Basin by the Hungarians (Magyars) in the ninth century (confirmed as such in 1256 [József Holub, Zala megye története a középkorban. Pécs: Dunántúl Egyetemi Nyomdája, 1929. 53). From the thirteenth century a number of Tötösy families are recorded as noble landowners in and around the adjacent Zala County villages Pacsa (Thythesy de Thythes 1256-1676) Baktüttös (Thutusy de Teuteus, Thuthusy de Thuthus 1268-1382), Kerecseny (Teuteus de Teuteus, Thythews de Thythews 1372-1700), Hazugd (Thythesy de Thythes 1513), and Zepethk (1549). These families were small landholders, served mostly as military officers (with the privilege of no taxation, such nobles were required to serve at their own cost) and active in the county administration (which, until 1848 has been the privilege of the nobility). In addition to the Zala County Tötösy families, there existed many other Tötösy families in Western and South-Western Hungary, as well as in some other regions of the country. Most of the Tötösy families in these counties had public noble status (i.e., nobles whose status was recognized throughout the kingdom of Hungary), but in several instances they had local status of nobility or noble status recognized by propertied church authorities only. After the Battle of Mohács in 1526 -- a period in Hungarian history when the physical, material, and cultural devastation of the country and the consequent social upheaval caused by the Ottoman and Habsburg invasions resulted in the reformation of the nobility along with the ennoblement or the reennoblement of large numbers of previously already noble families -- numerous Tötösy families were recorded in various registers of nobility. Most of these families had a Patent of Nobility (which afforded taxfree status along with other privileges of the nobility while with obligatory military service), however, not all owned land at the various times of the registries' recording. It is during this period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century that the legal, economic, social, cultural, and documentary consolidation of the large Hungarian middle nobility occurred. It should be noted that, despite the sometimes lively legends circulating in Tötösy families, there is no documentary or conjectural evidence that any of the Tötösy families would have descended from the renown Töttös de Báthmonostor family of the Becse-Gergely clan: this family's last male descendant deceased in 1468 and all of its properties passed on by royal decree to collateral families (see, e.g., Kozmács István. "Egy kihalt nemesi família családnevéröl." Magyar Nyelvör 111.1 [1987]: 28-31).

1) The Töt(t)ös(s)y de Zepetnek Family
The Tötösy de Zepetnek [Tivtoßÿ de Zepethnek] family of Zala and Vas counties. The Zala County Tötösy families of Pacsa and of the nearby villages of Tötös, Zepethk, Hazugd, and Kerecseny are documented in 1256 as prima occupatio landed nobles (i.e., since the Magyar conquest of the Danube Basin in the ninth century): "The families of soldier nobles [nobles of lesser privileges and required to pay taxes; landed nobles were tax exempt and served as military officers at their own cost] made sure no one would leave their ranks and in 1256 lieutenant Balasey of the Csab clan, Gothard, Olivér, Bud, and other soldier nobles accused the nobles residing in the vicinity of Pacsa to palatine Dénes and Zala County vicarius domini [ispán = land-stewart (Panyit Bánffy de Alsólindva)] that the said nobles are, in fact, soldier nobles. But the land-steward ruled that these were nobles since Saint Stephen [first king of Hungary following the Magyar conquest of the Danube Basin in the ninth century, crowned in AD 1000] and then the soldier nobles recognized this" (József Holub, Zala megye története a középkorban. Pécs: Dunántúl Egyetemi Nyomdája, 1929. 53), in 1428 Tötösy families are documented as noble landowners in Tötös: "Benedek Tötösy [de Thewtes] /4/ [four houses and their landed properties], Mátyás, Pál /4/, Boldizsár, Péter /2/, Ábrahám, Ferenc /2/, Mihály, and Gergely and the widow of Máté Chapos are inducted as owners of landed property in Tötös [Thewtes], Zala County" (Zala megyei helységnévtár Tüttös [Ma: Pacsa része] 23.472. 25. Zalavári hh. lt. 1/1428), and in 1428 in Pacsa the Tötösy de Pacsa (Thythesy de Pacha) family is documented as noble landowner and the same family is documented there in 1479, and in 1513 four Tötösy (Thythews de Thythews) families are documented in Tötös (Magyar Országos Levéltár/Hungarian National Archives; Zala Megyei Levéltár/Zala County Arcives; Dezsö Csánki. Magyarország földrajza a Hunyadiak korában. Budapest: A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, 1890-1897. Vol. 3, 59, 192). Georgius/György Tötösy de Zepethnek [Tivtoßÿ/Tiwtößy de Zepethnek], agilis et literatus (of noble origin and learned), his spouse domina Catharina/Katalin, and their children Petrus/Péter, Jacobus/Jakab, Ursula/Orsolya, and Catharina/Katalin receive a Patent of Nobility with coat-of-arms 1587.2.22 from Rudolph II. King of Hungary and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Georgius and his family are inducted in 1590 as owners of a manor (curia nobilitaris) and landed property (possessio) in the villages of Ják and Sorkikisfalud (Vas County) following a royal donation issued by Rudolph II. 1589.7.22. After the 1587 grant of the Patent of Nobility and before 1589 Georgius and his spouse domina Catharina issue daughter Margareta/Margit and before 1597 son Joannes/János, their daughter Ursula deceases 1589-1597. Domina Catharina, widowed before 1597, acquires further landed property in the village of Ják in 1597 and receives a letter of royal confirmation from the County of Vas. The de Zepethnek predicate of nobility refers to the Zala county village of Zepethk and not to the also Zala County city of Zepethnek: in archival documents of the middle ages and the early modern period the village of Zepethk was at times confused with and/or written same as Zepethnek) and Georgius/György is a direct descendant of the Zala County Tötösy prima occupatio familiy whose member Joannes Tötösy de Tötös in 1549 owns two noble manors and one newly populated indentured serf property in the Zala County village Zepethk (Lower- and Upper-Zepethk, adjacent to Pacsa and Tötös) (Zala megyei Levéltár/Zala County Archives E 158 Tom. LI. 46., 1543. VI. 10. ZML. HL. 4006; Ferenc Maksay. Magyarország birtokviszonyai a 16. század közepén. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1990. Vol. 2, 977, 1008). The Tötösy de Zepethnek coat-of-arms, described in the Patent of Nobility of 1587, is an upright military shield, divided horizontally into two halves, the upper field is red, the lower blue. In the lower field a bare arm holding a sheaf of wheat askew emerges from a five-pronged royal crown. In the upper corners of the shield there is a crescent to the right and a star to the left. Above the shield is a closed military helmet embellished by the same royal crown. From the crown emerges an arm, similar to that in the shield, between two eagle wings. The right wing is coloured gold-black, the left red-white. From the top of the helmet hang decorative bands, in the right coloured gold-black, in the left red-white. In heraldic language: Arms: Per fess Gules and Azure, over all out of a coronet Or jewelled Gules and Azure a cubit arm Argent holding a garb of wheat in bend sinister between in chief a crescent and a mullet of six points, both Or. Crest: Out of a coronet Or a cubit arm Argent holding a garb Or as in the arms, in front of a vol party per fess, the dexter Or and Sable the sinister Gules and Argent. The family owns landed property until the late eighteenth century in the Vas County villages of Sorkikisfalud, Nagyunyom, Kajd, Szécseny, etc., as well as in Zala County (and the Zala County city of Zalaegerszeg) until the mid-nineteenth century where a branch of the family returned in the 17. century. Members of the family since the middle ages to today serve as military officers, county and city administrators, and in the professions as educators, lawyers, physicians, priests, etc.). Branches of the family live in Hungary, Romania, Canada, Belgium, and the USA.
    Selected sources: Csánki, Dezsö. Magyarország földrajza a Hunyadiak korában. Budapest: A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, 1890-1897. Vol. 3, 59, 192; Balogh, Gyula. Vasvármegye nemes családjai. 2nd. ed. Szombathely: Bertalanffy, 1894. 152, 260, 296.; Borovszky, Samu, ed. Magyarország vármegyéi és városai. Magyarország monográfiája. Budapest: Apolló, 1896-1913. Vas megye 576. Torontál megye 528-32.; Gerö, József. A Magyar Kir. Belügymin. által igazolt nemesek. Budapest, 1940. 377.; Holub, József. Zala megye története a középkorban. Pécs: Dunántúl Egyetemi Nyomdája, 1929. 53.; Horváth, Sándor. A M. Kir. Országos Levéltárnak az 1886-1907. években bemutatott czímeres nemeslevelek jegyzéke. Budapest, 1908. 53.; Illéssy, János. Az 1754-1755. évi országos nemesi összeírás. Budapest, 1902. 128.; Kempelen, Béla. Magyar nemes családok. Budapest: Grill, 1911-1932. Vol. 10, 419-20, 435.; Lendvai, Miklós. Temes vármegye nemes családjai. Budapest, 1905.; Nagy, Iván. Magyarország családai czímerekkel és nemzedékrendi táblákkal. Pest, 1857-1868. Vol. 11, 324.; Archives: Pest Megyei Levéltár/Pest County Archives, Vas Megyei Levéltár/Vas County Archives, Zala Megyei Levéltár/Zala County Arcives, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Levéltára/Archives of the Hungarian National Museum, Magyar Országos Levéltár/Hungarian National Archives, Österreichisches Staatsarchiv-Kriegsarchiv.

Coat-of-arms of the Tötösy de Zepetnek [Tivtoßÿ de Zepethnek] Family 1587
Original Patent of Nobility; Lendvai, Miklós. Temes vármegye nemes családjai. Budapest, 1905. Vol. 3.

1.1 Post-1587 Branches of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family
    1.1.1 The Vas County Sorkikisfalud and later the Southern-Hungarian branch remained until the mid-eighteenth century Vas County and held landed property in the villages of Töttös, Sorkikisfalud, and Kajd. Its members were, in addition to being landed gentry, active as county officials and lawyers. After their move to Southern Hungary in the late eighteenth century they served in Temes and Torontál counties and the city of Temesvár (today Timisoara, Romania) as lawyers and city fathers. This branch is extinct. Notable members are Mihály (1754-1781) assessor tabulae (senior government official) of Vas County, Béla dr. (1854-1923) university professor, Gyula (1886-1948) captain, István (1908-1991) hotel owner (to 1948). See III.12, 19-21, 24-29, 42 <http://www.totosy.com/partthree.html>, IV.2-7, 11 <http://www.totosy.com/partfour.html>, VI.1I-O <http://www.totosy.com/partsix.html>
    Selected Sources: Borovszky, Samu, ed. Magyarország vármegyéi és városai. Magyarország monográfiája. Budapest: Apolló, 1896-1913. Torontál megye 528-32.; Kempelen, Béla. Magyar nemes családok. Budapest: Grill, 1911-1932. Vol. 10, 419-20.; Láng, Judit. "Negyvennégy. (Közreadja Frank Tibor)." Történelmi Szemle 2 (1982): 2. 276-319, 290.; Lendvai, Miklós. Temes vármegye nemes családjai. Budapest, 1905.; Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1967-1969. Vol. 2, 910.; Nagy, Iván. Magyarország családai czímerekkel és nemzedékrendi táblákkal. Pest, 1857-1868. Vol. 11, 324.; Schneider, Miklós. Vas vármegye nemesi összeírásai 1781. Szombathely, 1941. Vol. 1/2. 84.; Pest Megyei Levéltár/Pest County Archives, Vas Megyei Levéltár/Vas County Archives, Zala Megyei Levéltár/Zala County Arcives, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Levéltára/Archives of the Hungarian National Museum, Magyar Országos Levéltár/Hungarian National Archives, Österreichisches Staatsarchiv-Kriegsarchiv.
    1.1.2 The Zala County, City of Zalaegerszeg, and Muraköz branch moved from Buzamajor near the city of Sárvár (County of Vas), where they owned property, to the city of Zalaegerszeg (capital city of the County of Zala) at the end of the seventeenth century where they served as lawyers, county and city adminstrators, and educators. The Muraköz branch owned landed property in several villages of the region (today Slovenia). The Zalaegerszeg branch is extinct while to date no data are available of the Muraköz branch. Notable members are László (1746-1824) assessor tabulae (senior government official) of the county of Zala, László (1750-1831) mayor of the city of Zalaegerszeg, György, commissioner of the city of Zalaegerszeg (1848). See III.17, 18 <http://www.totosy.com/partthree.html>, IV.9, 7.13, 7.15 <http://www.totosy.com/partfour.html>, VI.2, VI.2A <http://www.totosy.com/partsix.html>
    Selected Sources: Foki, Ibolya. Zalaegerszeg 1850-1860. Zalaegerszeg: A Zalaegerszegi Kultúrális Örökségért, 2000. 18.; Horváth, Ferenc. Sárvár monográfiája. Szombathely: Sylvester János, 1978. 267.; Kempelen, Béla. Magyar nemes családok. Budapest: Grill, 1911-1932. Vol. 10, 435.; Pesthy, Pál. Zalaegerszeg múltja és jelene. Zalaegerszeg: A szerzö, 1931. 40-42.; Sebök, Samu. "Adatok Zalaegerszeg r.t. város történetéböl." Medgyesi Lajos, ed. A zalaegerszegi Magyar Királyi Állami fögymnasium értesítöje az 1901-1902-ik tanévröl. Zalaegerszeg: Breisach Sámuel, 1902. 25, 30, 36, 83-84.; Zala Megyei Levéltár/Zala County Arcives.
    1.1.3 The Püspöki and Budapest branch moved from Sorkikisfalud to Püspöki (both in Vas County) in the early eighteenth century where they remained until the end of the nineteenth century. They lost both their landed property and their free and noble status by the mid-eighteenth century, one generation after the government-required documentation of noble status in 1726. By the time of the existence of official birth and marriage records in the early to mid-1700s, in the Püspöki birth records various members of the family were registered as colonus and inquilinus, later as ignobilis and jobbágy (serf), although birth records also show that they maintained relationship as godparents with the Sorkikisfalud branch, who in turn were matriculated consistently as nobles. After the end of serfdom and the abolition of many of the historical privileges of nobility in 1848, they began to reclaim their previous social and material status. In the nineteenth century the family moved to the Veszprém County village Mezölak and in the early twentieth century to Budapest and joined the urbanized and educated strata of society there. Notable members are János (1816-1866) notarius loci (village notary) of and landowner in Püspök (Vas County), Ernö dr. (1889-1945) lawyer and government official, Ernö dr. (1918-2009) lawyer, author, Knight of Malta, István (1920-2000) military officer, István (Steven Totosy de Zepetnek) (1950-) Ph.D., university professor; Péter (1954-) owner of printing company, Beatrice Dr. (1956-) university professor. See III.30-32, 37-39 <http://www.totosy.com/partthree.html>, IV.13, 17, 22 <http://www.totosy.com/partfour.html>, VI.3 <http://www.totosy.com/partsix.html>
    Selected Sources: Balogh, Gyula. Az 1809. évi insurrectio és franczia megszállás Vasmegyében. Szombathely: Bertalanffy, 1885. 28-31.; Birk, Hans. Birk's Armorial Heritage in Canada of Continental European Families. Toronto: The Armorial Heritage Foundation, 1984. 192, IV.; Borbándi, Gyula. A magyar emigráció életrajza 1945-1985. Budapest: Europa Könyvkiadó, 1989. 392, 419, 422, 440, 452, 461, 469, 471.; A M. Kir. Honvédség és Csendörség tisztjeinek és hasonló-állásúaknak 1944. évi rangsorolása. Budapest: Hivatalos kiadás, 1944. 300.; Kazáry, Károly. "A vasmegyei ötödik számú gyalogzászlóalj szerepe az utolsó nemesi fölkelésben." Dunántúli Szemle 9-10 (1942): 37-46, 124-36, 129.; II. 295, 301.; Kiss, R. István. Az utolsó nemesi felkelés. Budapest, 1911. Vol. 2, 295, 301.; Nagy, Csaba, ed. A magyar emigráns irodalom lexikona. Budapest: Argumentum Petöfi Irodalmi Múzeum és Kortárs Irodalmi Központ, 2000. 979-80.
    1.1.4 The Nyitra, Hont, Pozsony (Szered and Ótura), and Trencsén Counties and Budapest branch moved in the seventeeth century to the Upper Hungary and established branches in the Pozsony, Nyitra, Hont, and Trencsén counties and the Pozsony branch moved in the late nineteenth century to Budapest. In Upper Hungary they owned landed property in several villages in several counties and served as military officers and in county administration, from the nineteenth century Budapest as military officers, city administrators, and in the professions as educators, lawyers, physicians, priests, etc. Notable members are Mátyás 1616. royal customs officer, Joannes/János 1670. judex nobilium of Nyitra County, Miklós (1881-1965) prelate and church censor, Aladár (1889-1951) colonel, Béla (1922-2001) physician, Csaba (1931-) university professor. See IV.12, 18, 19, 21, 27 <http://www.totosy.com/partfour.html>, III.16, 23, 33, 40, 41 <http://www.totosy.com/partthree.html>, VI.5 <http://www.totosy.com/partsix.html>
    Selected Sources: Bajkay, Árpád. "Zarándokút Vereckétöl az Örvidékig 3." Hegyvidék (19 October 2005): 8.; Budapest történetének bibliográfiája. Budapest: Fövárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár, 1966-1969. Vol. 6, 207-11.; Demeter, Zsuzsanna. "Plébános a gettóban." História (April 1984).; Kö, András, "Májusi harsonaszó: 'Béke jö, s egy szép, új világ'." Magyar Nemzet (2 May 2002): 6.; Töttössy, Gyula. "A szepetneki Töttössy családból." Élö Nemesség (1900. október 15): 47.
    1.1.5 The Zala County Zalaapáti and Saskatchewan Canada branch is likely a branch of the prima occupatio Pacsa, Tötös, Zepethk, Kerecseny, etc., Tötösy families or a branch of the Tötösy de Zepetnek family that returned to Zala county (see 1.1.2). See VI.4 <http://www.totosy.com/partsix.html>. Sources: Zala Megyei Levéltár/Zala County Archives, genealogical data of the Church of the Latter-day Saints of Jesus Christ.

2) The Etymology of the Geographical, Personal, and Family Name Tötös and Tötösy
The etymology of the name Tötös is inconclusive and at best hypothetical. Most etymologists of Hungarian names agree, however, that the name is old-Magyar and/or old-Turkic in origin (e.g., Pallas II 723). The first archival evidence of the name Tötös occurs as a reference to a "Tytus (Töttös)," a nobleman who was involved in campaigns against a Russian-Polish invasion of Hungary in the early twelfth century, in ~1132 (Pauler I. 242, 243). In one of the more recent Hungarian publications of the etymologies of place names it is suggested that the name Tötös ("Tuteus," "Thutos") originates from a personal name, whose bearer named his property after himself and/or whose name was adopted by the settlers of the same location (Lajos Kiss 657-58; see also Ördög; Mezö). This hypothesis places the origin of the name to the time of the Magyar conquest of the Danube Basin in the ninth century. This is consistent with archival documents available about Tötösy families who settled at the time of the conquest in the County of Zala. In later times when families began to use surnames, many families name originated from the place they owned property. Lajos Kiss further suggests that the personal name is a derivative of the old-Magyar etymon tö/tü, with the formative suffix -s, of the original meaning "stem of a plant in the ground". Kiss rejects the previously suggested etymology that the name is a derivative of the old-Turkic tütüs, meaning strife, discord, conflict, or enmity, that is, a characteristic of the individual then applied as a personal name. Ferenc Kállay interprets the name as a form of táltos (tatus, tutus), the name of old-Magyar shamanic priests (Lajos Kiss 47-55, 72). Further, he connects tentatively the name to the clan Tét or Tétény (Tatun), one of the original clans from the time of the Magyar conquest in the ninth century: this clan was supposed to have had numerous táltos among its members. The latter suggestion is problematic for several reasons. For one, the two widely accepted and authoritative works on the history of the early Magyar clans do not contain any reference that would warrant a connection between the name Tötös and the clan name Tét or Tétény (see Wetner 348-50; Karácsonyi 92-97). The reason why the suggested clan connection is unlikely is also linguistically explicable. The spelling of the name in medieval documents is consistent with regard to the usage of consonants and vowel clusters. From the first occurrence of the name in the twelfth century, the name consisted of three components. The first component consisted of the consonant t with the vowels a,e,i,o,ö,u,ü which appeared mostly in groups of two. In addition to these vowels, the consonants v,w,h,y appeared. The second component was a repetition of the first cluster, and the third was the suffix s (the y or i appeared later as a postposition indicating that the individual is "from" the location Tötös). The most frequent variations of the name in medieval documents are Tutus, Thythews, Thewtheus, Teuteus, Thuthus, and Theötös (in Ördög and Mezö the following spellings are listed, as documented in the eighteenth century: Tütösi, Thütössy, Tötösi, Tötösÿ, Tötösy, Tütösi, Tütösj, Tütösy, Tütösy, Tötösÿ). None of these variations show similarities to the variations associated with the clan name Tét/Tétény and the suffix -s never appears with the name Tét/Tétény. Kállay's suggestion that the name Tötös is a derivative of the name of old-Magyar shamanic priests, the táltos, was also proposed by US-American-Hungarian Sumerologist and linguist Ida Bobula (Limestone College, USA, personal letter, 1977). Bobula derived Tötös from the Sumerian tu, meaning "confirmation by oath". According to her explanation, the tu then progressed to old-Magyar tö, then tatus, and tét or tétemény, meaning of sorcery and magic. With this interpretation Bobula suggests that a progenitor had either a charismatic personality or that he had a physical or mental abnormality and thus was perceived as someone "touched" by god; in other words, a sorcerer and shaman. This perception of being "touched" by god often resulted in such a person becoming a shaman, that is, priest (we know this was a pattern in societies with shamanic religion, including many North American indigenous nations). Bobula's interpretation emulates Kállay's suggestion, although here too the suffix s remains a stumbling block as far as the terms tét and tétemény are concerned. Bobula also suggested an alternative interpretation, namely that the name is a derivative of tü, progressed into Tütüs, meaning "quarrelsome". This interpretation, relating the name to old-Turkic, is rejected by Kiss. I should like to add here that in my opinion the relation of a Magyar name to the ancient Sumerian language is tenuous. However, this interpretation is included here because there seems to be an overlap between Kállay's nineteenth-century interpretation and thus there is a sort of consistency there. The relation of Hungarian to Sumarian is a notion propagated by Hungarian scholars of nationalist/essentialist persuasion and it is not acknowledged in scholarship, although there are some serious works supporting this view: for a bibliography see Endrey 112-13). In my view, none of the above explanations offer a satisfactory etymology. Kiss' suggestion of "stem of a plant in the ground" is unlikely because the transfer of an image configuration like this one into a proper name makes little sense, even if one takes into account the linguistic feature of the Turanian and Turkic languages to express and describe objects in a flowery manner. The explanations proposing that the name derived from the term táltos seems unlikely because the distribution of the geographical name Tötös as well as the family name Tötösy occurred originally only in the Western and South-Western regions of Hungary). and the Hungarian shamans, the táltos, obviously existed at the time of the conquest and until the Christianization of the population between the tenth and eleventh centuries in all regions of Hungary and not only in Western and Southern Hungary. In sum, until further research is able to establish the origin and meaning of the name-- whether personal or geographical or both -- it remains at best that it is an ancient Magyar term whose exact meaning is unclear.
3) Selected Tötösy de Zepetnek Archival Documents in Translation
3.1 Translation of the 1587 Patent of Nobility with Coat-of-Arms issued to agilis and literatus Georgius Tivtoßÿ de Zepethnek, his spouse domina Catharina, their sons Petrus and Jacobus, their daughters Ursula and Catharina, and to all their descendants of both gender (see IV.1 <http://www.totosy.com/partfour.html>): "We, Rudolph the Second, by the grace of God elected Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Rama, Serbia, Galicia, Lodomeria, Cumania and Bulgaria, Grand Duke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Styria, Carinthia, Carnia, Marquis of Moravia, Duke of Luxembourg, Upper and Lower Silesia, Würtemberg and Theka, Prince of Swabia, Count of Habsburg, Tyrol, Ferretum, Kyburg and Görz, Knight of Elsaß, Marquis of Burgovia at Anasus and the Upper and Lower Lausitz of the Holy Roman Empire, Master of the County of Slavonia, the Port of Naon and the salt mines, etc. Partly because some of Our supporters addressed a humble petition to Our Majesty and partly because it came to Our attention and We made it a matter of Our consideration, with the contents of these lines We commit to the memory of everyone concerned the fidelity and devoted services of Our Agilis Georgius Tivtoßÿ de Zepethnek. The fidelity and devoted services which he demonstrated above all to the Holy Crown of Hungary and, as they say, also demonstrated to Our Majesty at various times and in places, he intends to assert in the future as well. Therefore, partly because of the foregoing, but also because of Our Royal generosity and grace by which We, in accordance with the custom of Our predecessors, the Holy Kings of Hungary, who used to reward those who acquired merits in their service and the Christian community, We too customarily present them with a token of remembrance and encourage their readiness to achieve even higher merits. Due to Our exceptional benevolence and Royal authority, We find the aforementioned Georgius Tivtoßÿ de Zepethnek, his sons Petrus and Jacobus, and his daughters Ursula and Catharina worthy to elevate from the ignoble fate and status in which they lived until now, as they profess, into the select community and numbers of nobles of Hungary and its subject territories. Based on Our knowledge and independent resolution, We agree and permit that the aforesaid may live, now and in the future, with all the favours, distinctions, authorities, privileges, liberties, rights, prerogatives, and immunities; that they rejoice in all these and that they enjoy these in the same manner as other genuine and indisputable nobles of Hungary and its subject territories, who do so in accordance with its laws and legal customs, and that the aforesaid, as well as their descendants of both gender, enjoy these distinctions. As proof of Our grace and benevolence towards them, We find it proper to symbolize this true and indisputable noble status by granting them this coat-of-arms as a sign of nobility: an upright military shield, divided horizontally into two halves: the upper field is red, the lower blue. In the lower field a bare arm, holding a sheaf of wheat askew, emerges from a royal crown. In the upper corners of the shield, to the right is a crescent, and to the left, a star. Above the shield is a closed military helmet embellished by the same royal crown. From the crown an arm, similar to that in the shield, emerges between two eagle wings. The right wing is gold-black, the left is redwhite. From the top of the helmet hang decorative ornaments; in the right gold-black, in the left red-white. This coat-of-arms can be seen, skillfully painted by the artist, at the commencement of Our document. We grant this coat-of-arms to the said Georgius Tivtoßÿ, to his sons Petrus and Jacobus, and similarly to his daughters Ursula and Catharina, and to the descendants of both gender of all of the above. We determine and acknowledge, in Our sovereign resolution that from now on and in the future and in all future times they are permitted to bear this coat-of-arms as a sign of noble status in the same manner as other nobles of Hungary and its subject territories and that all this is in addition to all those rights, privileges, sanctions, liberties, and immunities by which the nobles of Hungary live and enjoy as a matter of course or on the basis of legal customs. We permit the said persons to use this coat-of-arms in battle, in jousting, in tournaments, in duels, and in all military or other exercises of the community of nobles. Further, they may use it on their signets, sails, hangings, curtains, rings, flags, shields, tents and houses, in general on all occasions of their activities and ventures by rights of a true and genuine noble status. We order that they and all their descendants of both genders be recognized as nobles by everyone, no matter in what position, rank, state, and privileged status they may be. These shall acknowledge the said noble status, shall call them as nobles, and shall look upon them as such. They in turn shall be free to bear, to carry, to use, and to enjoy the above coat-of-arms and so shall their descendants and inheritors of both gender. Further, We present and grant as a token of our recognizance by the powers of these lines the following: as a perpetual confirmation We graciously confer and imprint this document with Our Privy Pendant Seal that represents Us as King of Hungary and thus confirms the state of nobility of the said Georgius Tivtoßÿ, of his sons Petrus and Jacobus, and of his daughters Ursula and Catharina, as well as all their descendants of both gender. This document was conferred by our esteemed supporter the Reverend Petrus Heressinczy, Bishop Elect of Zagreb, Our Councillor and Our Chief Court Chancellor of the Royal Palace in Prague on the 22nd Day of February in the 1587th year of our Lord, in the 12th year of Our rule as Holy Roman Emperor, in the 15th year of Our rule over other dominions, in the 12th year of our rule over Bohemia, when the following dignitaries headed the Holy Church: Peter Heressinczy, Reverend in Christ and elected Bishop of Zagreb; Stephanus Feyerkeövy, Bishop of Veszprém; Martinus Pethe de Hethes, Bishop of Vác; Stephanus Mat hissy, Bishop of Csanád; Zacharia Mossóczy, Bishop of Nyitra; Brother Stephanus Tarnovio, Bishop of Szerém; and Brother Bonaventura of Aquila, Bishop of Segnia; all of them governing the Church of God in good faith. The Archbishoprics of Esztergom, Kalocsa, Bács, and further the seats of the cathedrals of Eger, Erdély, Várad, Pécs, Györ, Tinin, Bosnia, and Modrus presently being vacant. Governors of Our state are the Honourable Count Stephanus de Báth or Judex Curiae; Comes Perpetuus of Mons Claudius and Banus of Slavonia, Croatia, and Dalmatia Count Thomas Erdeödy de Monyorókerék; Count Georgius Zrínyi Magister Tavernicorum; Count Balthasarius de Batthi an Magister Dapiferorum; Nicolaus Pálffy de Erdeöd Magister Cubiculariorum; and Michael de Rena Magister Janitorum. Vacant are the positions of Magister Regalium, Agazonum, and Pincernarum. The same Nicholaus Pálffy executes the duties of the Comes Posoniensis and many others carry the the governorship of the counties. Rudolph manu propria; Peter, Bishop of Zagreb manu propria; Tiburtius Himmelreich manu propria; 1587. This Patent of Nobility was publicly announced in the Court of Justice of Vas County in Szombathely, 29 May 1587. Notary of the Court of Justice, Nicholas Beytzy manu propria".
    [The original of this Patent is in the possession of Dr. (Zepethneki) Mária Magdolna Töttössy née Andorfel (born 1943) in Budapest; according to verbal information about the will and testament of István Töttössy (Szombathely 1920 - Budapest 2000), the previous owner of the document, this original Patent of Nobility is to be deposited in the Hungarian National Archives upon the death of said Dr. Mária Magdolna Töttössy née Andorfel. Transcripts (original, microfiche, and photographs) are in the Hungarian Széchenyi Archives (No. 1101/1969, 9x12 cm. Síkfilmek I/38), in the Archives of the County of Vas County (Vas Megyei Levéltár, Szombathely, Vegyes Nemesi Iratok, T-Zs, No. 32), and in the possession of the author.

3.2 Summary of Document of Donation of Landed Property (1589) (see IV.2 <http://www.totosy.com/partfour.html>): King Rudolph II's letter of donation of landed property, issued on July 22nd 1589 at Prague, describes the property, its history, and specifies the procedures of the donation for Squire (agilis et litteratus) Georgius Tewteößÿ de Zepetnek, his spouse domina Catharina, his sons Petrus and Jacobus, and his daughters Ursula, Catharina, and Margarita. The document specifies that the above shall be inducted by the Chapter of Vasvár and the appointed homines regius (royal officials), as owners of a curia nobilitaris [noble manor house] and landed property consisting of 2.5 holds [one hold is equivalent to 0.57 hectares or 1.42 English acres] arable land and eight hold-s forest. The property is located in the village of Ják (Gyak) in the County of Vas, near the river Sorok at the village of Sorkikisfalud. The said property was sold to the Tötösys by domina Ilona Tóth, daughter of the late Demetrius Lukách de Gyák and her sons Jacobus and Georgius for 150 Forint-s and four cubic feet of wheat. The king grants his agreement for the transaction and, consequently, donates the said property to the Tötösy de Zepetnek  family. The homines regius appointed to supervise the induction are Michael Ányos de Baloghfalwa, Balthasarius and Paulus Györffy de Rádócz, Alexandrius Kern, Stephanus Töryek de Zenteörsebet, and Paulus Náray de Nára". (Vas Megyei Levéltár, Szombathely, Vegyes Nemesi Iratok, T-Zs)

3.3 Translation of Mortgage Document (1597) (see IV.4 <http://www.totosy.com/partfour.html>): "We, the Chapter of Vasvár let everyone concerned know that Lady Ilona, daughter of the late Balthasarius Erös de Gyák, Squire, and spouse of Michael Szekér, serf of the late Balthasarius Györffy, Squire, and who resides in Kisunyom in the Honourable County of Vas, presented herself before us in person and accepted the representation of her brothers, Squires Johannes and Stephanus, and accepted the responsibilities of this transaction. After serious consideration, of her own free will, and following her independent decision which she affirmed orally and in this document, she presented her reasons. Namely, that owing to pressing needs she and her brothers are facing, she decided to mortgage their own, one-piece, and undividable landed property of two holds of arable land [one hold is equivalent to 0.57 hectares or 1.42 English acres]. This property is located in the village of Ják (Gyak) in the County of Vas in the part commonly known as the valley of Paulus Gyák. She mortgages, therefore, this property to Lady Catharina, widow of the late Georgius Theötheössy de Szepetnek, Squire, and their sons Peter, Jacobus, and Joannes, their daughters Catharina and Margarita, and to their descendants of both gender. The financial transaction of the mortgage of this property occurred at various places in part and in whole for the amount of eight Forints, which the previous proprietor received from the buyer. The property will be returned to the rightful owners at any time whenever they are able to repay the said eight Forints. At such time the then owners are required to accept these funds without any argument and hesitation and they are required to return the property peacefully to the rightful owners. The mortgaging party assures in her and in her siblings' name that they will not hinder in any way the new owner in the possession of this landed property and commit themselves to protecting the new owners against any legal contest at their own expense, as witnessed by us. Dated on the day of our glorious Lord's resurrection, Saturday, in the year of 1597". (Vas Megyei Levéltár, Szombathely, Vegyes Nemesi Iratok, T-Zs)
   
3.4 Investigation of Nobility (1726) (see IV.7 <http://www.totosy.com/partfour.html>): "Regestra Nobilitatis Comitatus Castriferrei. In processu Domini Joannis Zobotin ad investigationum non dum compararunt, pertim autim respirium petierunt partim denique non adequate probarunt sequentes. 1726. január 7-18, január 17-február 20, augusztus. ... Kissfalud Steph. Töltösy. Joannes et Franc. Töltösy". (Acta Nobilium Comitatum. Vas. Saec. XVI-XIX. Regestra Nobilitatis 1696-1785. Church of Latter-day Saints of Jesus Christ, Salt Lake City, Microfilm No. 0600841.) This above document is an entry in the County of Vas archival records noting that three Tötösy de Zepetnek heads of family -- Stephanus, Joannes, and Franciscus -- have not responded to the requirement to appear in person in front of authorities investigating the county's nobility (i.e., the nobles were required to document their noble status claimed).
   
3.5 Translation of the Certificate of Nobility Issued to Johannes Tötösy de Zepetnek (1733), following the Inquisitio Nobilium in the County of Vas in 1733 (see IV.8 <http://www.totosy.com/partfour.html>): "We, signed chief magistrate and judge of the honourable county of Vas acknowledge that by commission of the honourable deputies and at the request of Joannes Teötösÿ, Squire, the following witnesses testified upon oath, after we una fidelia established their authenticity by order of the above honourable deputies, as follows. The question is, did the witness know the late Georgius Teötössÿ who was the father of the applicant Joannes Tötösÿ presently residing in Sorki-Kisfalud in the honourable county of Vas and did he know the late Joannes Teötössÿ who was the father of Georgius Teötössÿ, and this late Joannes Tötösÿ who was the grandfather of the applicant? Further, if the witness knew these persons, was he aware that all the above mentioned persons were genuine and indisputable noblemen who resided on their own landed property donated to their noble ancestor and that they were the true descendants of the Georgius Töltösÿ who is inscribed in this present Patent of Nobility? The first witness is Stephanus Subics, Squire and landowner in Kiskolta in the County of Vas, about 60 years of age. The oath was taken. This witness knew very well the applicant Joannes Töltösi's father, the late Georgius Tötösÿ but he did not know the father of Georgius Tötösÿ the late Joannes Tötössÿ. He knows with certainty that the late Georgius Tötössÿ was a genuine nobleman and that he, according to his noble status and ascertained by the here present Patent of Nobility, now the property of the applicant, Joannes Tötösÿ, lived as a true nobleman availing himself of privileges like other noblemen. When he moved from Töltös to Püspöki, located in the honourable County of Vas, the witness himself heard domina Susanna Babos, daughter-in-law of Georgius Töltösÿ, say that they ought to live on their own patrimony in Töltös and that they ought to do so because their children may regret the change of residence one day. The second witness is Ladislaus Verebély, Squire and landowner in Szent Márton in the County of Vas, about 65 years of age. The oath was taken. This witness knows, as he was acquainted with the applicant's father, that the late Georgius Töltösÿ always lived as a true nobleman and enjoyed his privileges of nobility similar to other persons of noble status. He knows that the applicant's father did so on grounds of this Patent of Nobility, now the property of Joannes Tötösÿ. The Patent of Nobility previously examined, the above testimonies authenticated, we execute now this collateral with our signature and signet. Szombathely, 22 January 1733. Signed Georgius Rosta, judge in the honourable County of Vas manu propria". (Vas Megyei Levéltár, Szombathely, Inquisitio Nobilium 1733 No.31 Fasc.4 No.36)

4) A number of other Töt(t)ös(s)y families exist(ed) and are recorded in various archives including the Tolna, Fejér, Nyitra, Trencsén, Vas, Zala, and Györ counties, as well as in Transylvania (Erdély, today Romania):
    4.1 The Töttössy de Töttös family in the Vas County village of Töttös (today Gutatöttös) is documented as noble landowners from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries (II.VT1-10 <http://www.totosy.com/parttwo.html>).
    Selected sources: Baán, Kálmán. "Vas vármegye 1554. évi nemesi összeírása. (Birtokos és egytelkes nemesek)." Magyar Családtörténeti Szemle 6.5 (1940): 167, 972-40.; Anjoukori okmánytár. Imre Nagy Imre, Gyula Tasnádi Nagy, et al., eds. Budapest: A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, 1878-1920. Vol. IV, 25860; Csánki, Dezsö. Magyarország földrajza a Hunyadiak korában. Budapest: A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, 1890-1897. 805, 854.; Vas Megyei Levéltár/Vas County Archives, Zala Megyei Levéltár/Zala County Arcives, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Levéltára/Archives of the Hungarian National Museum, Magyar Országos Levéltár/Hungarian National Archives. nota bene: the Tötösy de Zepetnek family also owned property in this Töttös (Vas County) and the Töttössy de Egyházasfalva et Bástifalu family also owned landed property here (see 3) below); however, there is no relationship of descendance between the three families of the similar surname.
    4.2 The Töttössy de Egyházasfalva et Bástifalu family in the Vas County village Töttös, in several villages of Sopron County, as well as in the Zala, Fejér, Somogy, Veszprém, and Hont counties (<http://www.totosy.com/appendix.html>). This family is not related to the Zala County Tötösy families because prior to 1580 the family's name was Parnas de Töttös in the Zala County villages Pacsa and Tötös (where they were along with other families in the villages of Pacsa, Tötös, Zepethk, Kerecseny, and Hazugd as prima occupatio nobles). In the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries they were a bene possessiatus (nobles with extended landed properties) with landed properties in several counties of Western Hungary. Extinct. Notable members are Gábor ?1580/60 Sopron County royal official, László 1649 mayor of Székesfehérvár (Fejér County), Béla 1846 Zala County royal judge.
    Selected Sources: Baán Kálmán. "Vas vármegye 1554. évi nemesi összeírása. (Birtokos és egytelkes nemesek)." Magyar Családtörténeti Szemle 6.5 (January 1940): 167.; Balogh, Gyula Vasvármegye nemes családjai. Szombathely: Bertalanffy, 1894. 138, 285.; Barcsay-Amant Zoltán, ed. Nemesi évkönyv. Luzern: 1972-75. 381.; Baross, Károly. Magyarország földbirtokosai. Budapest: Hungaria, 1893. 817.; Borovszky, Samu, ed. Magyarország vármegyéi és városai.Magyarország monográfiája. Budapest: Apolló, 1896-1913. Somogy 604, Vas 204.; Csatkai, Endre. "Zadjeli Slachta Etelka soproni naplója 1838-1842." Soproni Szemle 7 (1943): 28. Fényes, Elek. Magyarország geográphiai szótára. Pest: Kozma Vazul, 1851. Rpt. Szeged, 1984. I. 148.; Daróczy, Zoltán. Nemesi Évkönyv. 1927-28. Budapest: May, 1929. 29-30. Fejér Megyei Történeti Évkönyv 5 (1971): 169.; Kempelen, Béla. Magyar nemes családok. Budapest: Grill, 1911-32. Vol. 10, 419-20.; Nagy, Iván. Magyarország családai czímerekkel és nemzedékrendi táblákkal. Pest, 1857-68. Vol. 11, 324.; Elek, Emil. A Magyar földbirtok 1903. Budapest: Pátria, 1903. 347. Soós, Imre. "Adalékok a sopronmegyei középbirtokok 16. századi történetéhez." Soproni Szemle (1937): 268.; Fejér Megyei Levéltár/Fejer County Archives, Sopron Megye Levéltár/Sopron County Archives, Vas Megyei Levéltár/Vas County Archives, Zala Megyei Levéltár/Zala County Arcives, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Levéltára/Archives of the Hungarian National Museum, Magyar Országos Levéltár/Hungarian National Archives.

Coat-of-arms of the Töttössy de Egyházasfalva et Bástifalu family (1683)

    4.3 The Györ county Tö(l)tös(i)y (Töttös-Tavay) family of Töltéstava (V.8 <http://www.totosy.com/partfive.html>). Extinct? Selected Sources: Borovszky, Samu. ed. Magyarország vármegyéi és városai. Magyarország monográfiája. Budapest: Apolló, 1896-1913. Györ megye 52; Kruesz, Krizosztom, Györ megye és város egyetemes leírása. Budapest: Franklin, 1874. 456, 487, 549.; Molnár, Szulpic. A pannonhalmi föapátság története. Negyedik korszak 1535-1708. Budapest: Stephaneum, 1906. 333-34, No. 6.
    4.4 The Tötössy (Teötössy, Theöttösy, Töttössy, Töltésy) alias/aliter Kónya family of Fejér and Komárom counties (V.6 <http://www.totosy.com/partfive.html>). Patent of Nobility Komárom County 1663 (Tagányi 4). Selected Sources: Nagy, Iván. Magyarország családai czímerekkel és nemzedékrendi táblákkal. Pest, 1857-68. Vol. 6, 541, Vol. 7, 233, Vol. 11, 290; Kempelen, Béla. Magyar nemes családok. Budapest: Grill, 1911-32. Vol. 10, 301, 409.; Alapi, Gyula. Komáromvármegye nemes családai. Komárom, 1911. 9, 12, 17, 60, 61, 78, 128, 154, 162, 177, 240, 267, 270.; Köszeghi, Sándor. Nemes családok Pestvármegyében. Budapest: Hungária, 1899. 187, 396; Siebmacher. Nagy Iván, Csergheö Géza. Der Adel von Ungarn samt den Nebenländern der St. Stephanskrone. Nürnberg, 1885-1893. Rpt. Neustadt an der Aisch: Bauer & Raspe. Inhaber Gerhard Gessner, 1982. Supplement 119 (86); Borovszky, Samu. ed. Magyarország vármegyéi és városai. Magyarország monográfiája. Budapest: Apolló, 1896-1913. Komárom megye 582.; Baranyay, József. A komáromi nyomdászat és a komáromi sajtó története. Komáromi Újság 1913-1914. 1914.3-23.; Tagányi, Károly. Jegyzéke az Országos Levéltárban a magyar és erdélyi udv. kanczelláriák fölállításáig található herczegi, grófi, bárói, honossági és nemesi okleveleknek. Budapest, 1886. 4.; Pest County Archives/Pest Megyei Levéltár, Vas County Archives/Vas Megyei Levéltár, Zala County Archives/Zala Megyei Levéltár, Pest County Archives/Pest Megyei Levéltár, Gömör-Kishont County Archives/Gömör-Kishont Megyei Levéltár, Fejér County Archives/Fejér Megyei Levéltár.    
    4.5 The Töttösy (also Tötésy, Tökésy, Töltésy, alias Dóczy) family of Komárom, Pest, Vas, and other counties. Selected Sources: Kempelen, Béla. Magyar nemes családok. Budapest: Grill, 1911-32. Vol. 3, 345, Vol. 10, 408, 409.; Orosz, Ernö. Heves- és a volt Külsö-Szolnok egyesült vármegyék nemes családjai. Eger: Egri Nyomda, 1906. Vol. 1, 69.; Alapi, Gyula. Komáromvármegye nemes családai. Komárom, 1911. 29, 78, 128, 176.; Köszeghi, Sándor. Nemes családok Pestvármegyében. Budapest: Hungária, 1899. 83, 404.; Pest County Archives/Pest Megyei Levéltár, Heves County Archives/Heves Megyei Levéltár, Vas County Archives/Vas Megyei Levétár.
    4.6 The Somogy County later Transylvanian (one branch in the U.S.) Töltési alias Töttösy family of Énlaka/Bisericani (Székelyudvarhely): the family began to use the surname Töttösy instead of Töltési sometime in the early twentieth century [family correspondence in April 2007) although it could be that the Töltésy name is in fact the early modern variation of the Tötösy surname (i.e., there were such noble landed families documented in Somogy County). Genealogy: A Mihály Töltési ?-? Tab (Somogy megye) married to Juliánna Pilényi /child: A1 István Töltési/Töttösy 1892-1942 Rácalmás (Fehér county) married to Ilona Bíró 1893- Énlaka (Székelyudvarhely county) gyerekek/children: A1a István Töttösy Bisericani/Énlaka, Románia, 1922.2.22.- mason and wood-industry worker married to Katalin ? 1923.12.4.-2002 Sopron children: A1aa Mary Tottosy 1948.5.18 Schömberg, Germany and A1ab Stephan Tottosy Providence, Rhode Island 1952.9.3.- resides in Petaluma, California, computer systems engineer; A1b Magdolna Töttösy Arad, Romania; A1c Ilona Töttösy Arad, Romania; A1d Béla Töttösy Vác (Pest county) 1932.9.2.- resides in Bisericani/Énlaka, Romania (personal communication 2006).
    4.7 The Töttösi/Töttösy family in Medina and Nagydorog, Tolna County (V.7 <http://www.totosy.com/partfive.html>, VI.8 <http://www.totosy.com/partsix.html>)
    4.8 The Vas County Tötösy family in the city of Körmend: on 11 April 1578 Tamás Tötösy (Teötösy) is granted a patent of nobility and coat-of-arms by Rudolf II. King of Hungary and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. The recipients of the Patent of Nobility and coat-of-arms are János Zakál de Körmend, his spouse Anna Sbardelat and their children, and his brothers-in-law János Kermendy, Ferencz Markasiny, Ferencz Makó, István Burján, and Tamás Tötösy (Teötösy). The patent has been presented in the original and consequently authenticated during the 1733 investigation of nobility by Mihály Szakály de Körmend who resides in Kisunyom and István Szakály de Körmend who resides in Felsöpaty (Balogh, Gyula. Vasvármegye nemes családjai. 2nd. ed. Szombathely: Bertalanffy, 1894. 265-66, 257). In 1649 the spouse of Mátyás Töttössi is registered in Körmend as owner of a house, 12 acres of land (Ila, Bálint. "Körmend város 1649. évi összírása." Ethnographia (1926): 563.



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