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 or Clan is a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors had a common surname and all inhabited the same lands.