Stephen H. Hussey was born on 14 October 1841, in Ireland. He married Elizabeth Nettleton on 8 July 1861, in England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Jersey City, Bergen, New Jersey, United States in 1900 and Bayonne, Hudson, New Jersey, United States in 1905. He died on 23 August 1918, at the age of 76.
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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 .
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