Brief Life History of Upton
When Upton Hussey was born on 10 May 1847, in Fancy Creek Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, his father, William S. Hussey, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Yocom, was 30. He died on 27 September 1847, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Fancy Creek Cemetery, Fancy Creek Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Hussey, "Find A Grave Index"
Parents and Siblings
1809–1885 Male
1816–1852 Female
Siblings (10)
1835–1926 Male
1836–1930 Male
1838–1862 Male
1839–1907 Female
1841–1924 Male
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Name Meaning
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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