Hausman History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

Hausman is an Anglo-Saxon name. The name was originally given to a person employed "at the house." In most cases, this was a religious house or convent. The surname Hausman is derived from the Old English word hus, which means house, and the word man, which means servant. 1

Early Origins of the Hausman family

The surname Hausman was first found in Yorkshire where Johannes Howsman was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379. A few years earlier John Houseman was found in Colchester, Essex in 1365. 2

"This surname, early found in Yorkshire, crossed the border and settled in the neighbourhood of Lancaster. A well-known vicar of Lancaster bore this name at the beginning of the century. Two hundred years earlier the name occurs in local Wills." 3

Early History of the Hausman family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Hausman research. Another 61 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 1365, 1604, 1622, 1630, 1636, 1696, 1714, 1759 and 1838 are included under the topic Early Hausman History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Hausman Spelling Variations

One relatively recent invention that did much to standardize English spelling was the printing press. However, before its invention even the most literate people recorded their names according to sound rather than spelling. The spelling variations under which the name Hausman has appeared include Houseman, Housemayne, Houssemayne, Housman, Howseman and many more.

Early Notables of the Hausman family

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Hausman Ranking

In the United States, the name Hausman is the 10,616^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 4

Hausman migration to the United States +

At this time, the shores of the New World beckoned many English families that felt that the social climate in England was oppressive and lacked opportunity for change. Thousands left England at great expense in ships that were overcrowded and full of disease. A great portion of these settlers never survived the journey and even a greater number arrived sick, starving, and without a penny. The survivors, however, were often greeted with greater opportunity than they could have experienced back home. These English settlers made significant contributions to those colonies that would eventually become the United States and Canada. An examination of early immigration records and passenger ship lists revealed that people bearing the name Hausman arrived in North America very early:

Hausman Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Ludwig Hausman, who landed in New York in 1709 5
Conrad Hausman, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1739 5
Jacob Hausman, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1743 5
Johannes Hausman, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1749 5
Joseph Hausman, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1749 5
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Hausman migration to New Zealand +

Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include:

Hausman Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century

Mr. Carl Hausman, (b. 1842), aged 22, British farm labourer travelling from Gravesend, UK aboard the ship "British Empire" arriving in Lyttelton, South Island, New Zealand on 6th September 1864 6

Contemporary Notables of the name Hausman (post 1700) +

Howard E. Hausman, American Republican politician, Member of Connecticut Republican State Central Committee, 1940 7
Frank F. Hausman, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956; Candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania, 1956 7
René Hausman (1936-2016), Belgian comic-book writer and artist, nicknamed the "Bard of the Ardennes"

Citations +

Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 17th October 2018). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, February 5) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html