When Infant Hussey was born on 20 September 1841, in Greene, Ohio, United States, his father, Christopher Hussey Esq, was 47 and his mother, Catherine Lockhart, was 24. He died on 3 October 1841, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Hussey Cemetery, Bowersville, Greene, Ohio, United States.
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English: of Norman origin, a nickname for someone who habitually wore a distinctive pair of boots or gaiters, from Old French hosed, hoset, housé, Middle English hosey, hus(s)y,‘booted, gaitered’ (from Latin hosatus).
English: status name or nickname from Middle English hus(e)wyf ‘mistress of a family; wife of a householder’ (a compound of Old English hūs ‘house’ + wīf ‘woman’). Though originally a woman's name, it is often found as a male surname, presumably in a derogatory sense. The vocabulary word became hussie, with the meaning ‘disreputable woman’, in the 16th century; the surname, however, is not associated with this meaning.
Irish: shortened 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 or Oswald .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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