When Joseph Hus was born on 18 September 1689, in Sorel-Tracy, Pierre-De Saurel, Quebec, Canada, his father, Paul Hus, was 44 and his mother, Jeanne Baillargeon, was 34. He died on 19 February 1723, in his hometown, at the age of 33, and was buried in Sorel-Tracy, Pierre-De Saurel, Quebec, Canada.
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Polish, Czech, and Jewish (from Poland); Slovak (also Hús): nickname or metonymic occupational name from Polish and Czech dialect and Slovak hus ‘goose’. Compare Czech Husa .
Dutch: cognate of German Huss .
Norwegian: habitational name from a couple of farmsteads so named, from Old Norse hús ‘house’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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