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Hi My ggGrandmothers name Is Margaret Hosie(first and middle) she was born in 1885 in Glasgow,Scotland.
I have always been curious as to the meaning of Hosie,but cannot find anything on it.As far as I can tell it is not a family name,I am the unofficial genealogist of the family,and have traced the family back to the 1700's in Scotland,but cannot find the name.Help
Thanks in Advance
Kathy
I have always been curious as to the meaning of Hosie,but cannot find anything on it.As far as I can tell it is not a family name,I am the unofficial genealogist of the family,and have traced the family back to the 1700's in Scotland,but cannot find the name.Help
Thanks in Advance
Kathy
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MacLysaght's "Surnames of Ireland" lists "Hosey" as dual origin.
Either:
The Norman family "de Hosey" of Counties Meath and Kerry.
"Ó hEodhusa," a bardic family related to the Maguires in Cos. Fermanagh and Tyrone.
My guess is that the Norman ancestry of the first source extended to Scotland. That is the source to trace.
Either:
The Norman family "de Hosey" of Counties Meath and Kerry.
"Ó hEodhusa," a bardic family related to the Maguires in Cos. Fermanagh and Tyrone.
My guess is that the Norman ancestry of the first source extended to Scotland. That is the source to trace.
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Could be an orthographic problem - I know someone whose name, Letty, was written down by her parents and submitted like that when her birth was registered, to avoid errors, but the clerk misread their handwriting and on all the documentation she's been Setty for life!
That Hosie looks suspiciously like Rosie - have you seen the actual entry? (My great-grandfather's birth certificate is beautifully written in copperplate, and is extremely hard to read. Lovely to look at, though!)
That Hosie looks suspiciously like Rosie - have you seen the actual entry? (My great-grandfather's birth certificate is beautifully written in copperplate, and is extremely hard to read. Lovely to look at, though!)
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