Re: The HUS-LATRAVERSE line, descended from PAUL HUS-LEMOINE
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Re: The HUS-LATRAVERSE line, descended from PAUL HUS-LEMOINE
Gilbert Beno 4/26/06
That may very well be the case ...
Speculation and coming up with new theories on things is how we ultimately answer questions and learn more. If the name was pronounced "uue" ... it could have been part of the reason why the name was changed so many times.
One also has to take into consideration the great number of children that Paul Hus had some even with very similar names...
Jean-Baptiste & Jean-Baptiste Antoine
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While we're speculating -- here's some other possibilies...
We know that Paul Hus and Leonard were from Montigny, Rouen, Normandie ... but we don't know of the origins before them.
As I've said in other messages -- I've read material that suggests that Hus is a patronymic name (surname deriving from a patriarch's first name)... in this case, Hugh. Hugh was a very popular name in the 10th and 11th Centuries -- at the time when surnames first became widely used. I've read material that suggest that the "Hus Patriarch" was a knight named Hugh de Paduinan ... a Norman in the service of Duke William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. When William defeated Harold -- he became the first Norman King of England ... brought the French-Norman language and custom over to England. This Hugh de Paduinan traveled north to Scotland where a village grew up around his home... Hus ton... which became Houston -- literally "Hugh's Town". So the name Houston today derives its origins from this Norman Knight who settled in Scotland. Is it possible that his descendants traveled back to Normandy? -- Very much so. Hugh's family could have been enobled by William and stayed in Britain for a time --- but been drawn out by wars on the continent or en route to the Holy Land on Crusades. Normandy was hotly contested between the French and English for 500 years after the Norman Conquest ... so it's certainly possible.
One has to consider how closely related the "English" and "French" are, and were back then. After the Norman Dynasty came the Angevin Dynasty ... Dukes of Anjou in France who became Kings of England. They spoke French, they controlled much of modern day France -- yet they were "English". So it's possible that there were "Hus" living in Scotland, England and Normandy -- descended from Hugh de Paduinan. It's possible that the "Hus" spelling was from the translation from Old French to the Scottish vernacular.
I have read elsewhere that "Hus" was the Viking word for "House". Viking of course referring to the raiders from Denmark and Scandinavia that settled along the coast of northern France -- which eventually became called "Normandy" ... "land of the northmen". So considering the fact that we know that our Hus ancestor came from Normandy before coming to the New World ... it's possible there's a connection there.
It's also possible that the origins could be from another country in Europe other than France or Scotland. Jan Huss was famous during the Reformation in Germany... so perhaps Hus has german origins?
I would love for this post to spark a debate about the origins of the Hus name...
Let's bring some new ideas to the table and see if together we can figure this out...
:)
Good post