Hooe History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

Early Origins of the Hooe family

The surname Hooe was first found in on the southeastern coast of England, where evidence suggests they held a family seat before the Norman Conquest.

Early History of the Hooe family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Hooe research. Another 237 words (17 lines of text) covering the years 1066, 1086 and 1273 are included under the topic Early Hooe History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Hooe Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Hooe family name include Hoo, Hooe, Hou, Whoo, Ho and others.

Early Notables of the Hooe family

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Hooe migration to the United States +

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Hooe surname or a spelling variation of the name include:

Hooe Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Mr. Ryce Hooe, aged 36, from England who arrived in Virginia aboard the ship "America" arriving in June 1635 1
And Hooe, who landed in Virginia in 1637 1

Sources +

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)