Hussey Family History
Hussey Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEodhusa
‘descendant of Eodhus’; this was the name of a bardic family
associated with the Maguires of Fermanagh, also Anglicized as
Oswell, Oswald.English (of Norman origin):
habitational name from Houssaye in Seine-Maritime, so called from a
collective noun from Old French hous ‘holly’.English:
nickname for a woman who was mistress of her own household, from
Middle English husewif (a compound of Old English hus
‘house’ + wif ‘woman’). It was not until the 17th century
that this word acquired pejorative connotations.
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Name Distribution of Hussey Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hussey families
 102 - 202  35 - 101 |
 1 - 34  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hussey families
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283 - 563 95 - 282 |
1 - 94 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hussey families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hussey Family Origin
Hussey Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Hussey
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Hussey Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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