This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Torring, Torreng Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3BC.2ACE/1896.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks a lot! This was very good help for me! What does contractor (cement contractor) mean? Petrus Tørring was my grandmother's uncle (only ten years older than she). When he died, my grandmother inherited some money, and she bought me a sleeping doll! I have a photo of him, taken on the street, maybe in Spokane.