When Catherine Hus was born on 23 November 1696, in Sorel-Tracy, Pierre-De Saurel, Quebec, Canada, her father, Paul Hus, was 51 and her mother, Jeanne Baillargeon, was 42. She died on 5 February 1772, in her hometown, at the age of 75.
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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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