The Heher family history stretches back to the clans of the Dalriadan kingdom on the sea-swept
Hebrides islands and mountainous western coast of
Scotland. The name Heher is derived from
Ir. O'hlr means
descendant of Ir.Early Origins of the Heher family
The surname Heher was first found in
Ayrshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir), formerly a county in the southwestern Strathclyde region of
Scotland, that today makes up the Council Areas of South, East, and North
Ayrshire, where they held a
family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the
Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.
Early History of the Heher family
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Heher Spelling Variations
Medieval translation of Gaelic names could not be referred to as an accurate process. Spelling was not yet standardized, and names in documents from that era are riddled with
spelling variations. Heher has been written as Hare, Hair, Hehir, Hehr, Heher and others.
Early Notables of the Heher family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Heher family to Ireland
Some of the Heher family moved to
Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Migration of the Heher family to the New World and Oceana
The descendants of the Dalriadan families who made the great crossing of the Atlantic still dot communities along the east coast of the United States and Canada. In the American
War of Independence, many of the settlers traveled north to Canada as United Empire Loyalists.
Clan societies and highland games have allowed Canadian and American families of Scottish descent to recover much of their lost heritage. Investigation of the origins of family names on the North American continent has revealed that early immigrants bearing the name Heher or a variant listed above include:
Heher Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
- John Heher, aged 25, who arrived in Missouri in 1848 [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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)
Contemporary Notables of the name Heher (post 1700)
- Harry Heher (1889-1972), American Democrat politician, Chair of Mercer County Democratic Party, 1921; New Jersey Democratic State Chair, 1922-32; Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1924, 1928, 1932 [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 26) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html - Frank Heher, American Democrat politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Nevada, 1948 [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 26) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html