Portor Coat of Arms, Family Crest and Portor Family History

Portor Family History

The names Portor and Porter in Ireland are of Anglo origin having been introduced into the country by settlers as early as the twelfth century. Most of the settlers however, arrived into the Province of Ulster in the seventeenth century and it is here that the majority of descendants can still be found.

A Sept is an ancient form of a Clan and is a group of people whose ancestors all bore the same surname and inhabited the same locality.