German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German altes Haus ‘old
house’, a habitational name for someone who lived in a building known
as ‘the old house’ or from a place so named, for example in Hessen.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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