Family Crest Descriptions
Family Crest Descriptions
Family Crest is: A dexter armed proper, holding a sword in fesse all proper.
Rooney Family Coat of Arms is: Vert, three lions rampant or, on a chief argent, two martlets gules.
Rooney Family Motto is: Ex Merito meaning in English “Through Merit”
Rooney Family History is:Then name is actually an Anglicization of the old Irish name O’Ruanaidh.and had its homeland in the Northern territory of Ulster in the county of Down. Records of the name goes as far back as the 13th century, when the first of several O’Rooneys in particular on Felix O,Rooney Arch Bishop of Tuam who fell foul of the ruling O’Connors of Connacht, resigned the episcopate and became a monk and died in 1238. Ceallach O’Rooney was called “Chief Poet of Ireland” and Eoin O’Rooney was chief poet to McGuiness of Iveagh.
One of the earliest records of the name in the New World was one Thomas Rooney, from Banbridge Co. Down who sailed to New York on board the Diana in May 1803. Elizabeth and Robert Rooney sailed from Derry to Quebec on board the Mary Campbell with their t children Mary, Henery, Thomas, Jane and Magaret in 1849.