The Huish Clan, can anybody help me.

[gilmore]

What good news. How did you discover this?

[Big Homestead]

What good news. How did you discover this?

Talking with the old man a few days ago, he dropped some info my grandmother had passed on to people sometime ago. I really need to call her and get all of this.

Cheers

[sirdaniel1975]

Just found out today that it is either McHuish or MacHuish. When my great granfather came over see's he dropped the Mc or Mac for some reason.

Neat.

That is a very common tale. Dropping a prefix or suffix from a name. I hope you understand that Mc and Mac are exactly the same thing, just abbreviations. People commonly signed their own names with these abbreviations all the time.

There are many reasons why families names became altered, and without the family story to go on... you have more of a investigation to perform. Don't worry, it's actually more fun when there are missing pieces of information.

If you say great grandfather, I'm guessing the early part of the 20th century like the Scottish part of my family. They possibly came in through Ellis Island, upon leaving the gang way of the ship and signing in and the officer might have dropped the Mc/Mac right then and there.

Many people would alter their name to avoid detection from the authorities. Possibly he or some relative had a criminal record. This is more common than people like to admit. Which really has so much to do with why so many people migrated to America. It was all about having a fresh start for many people.

Good luck with your searches..

Make sure you lock down abt (approximate birth times), professions, birth cities, *parishes*, marriage, death, military service, college, addresses .....

On the digitized records online: someone has retyped old written records and it is very common to find misspellings and mis typed numbers.
6's are often confused for 8's (vice versa).
1's & 7's....
2 & 3's
5 & 6's
8 & 9's.......

Remember to cross reference everything.. look up the marriage record under the male and females names.... try to match parishes, births, occupations when looking for maiden names....

Save everything you find online for further cross referencing and matching when you actually get to sit in front of the actual records...

[gilmore]

That is a very common tale. ...
If you say great grandfather, I'm guessing the early part of the 20th century like the Scottish part of my family. They possibly came in through Ellis Island, upon leaving the gang way of the ship and signing in and the officer might have dropped the Mc/Mac right then and there.

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That too is a commonly told though usually untrue tale. More often the immigrants changed their names themselves in hopes of better fitting in in their new country.

[Big Homestead]

That is a very common tale. Dropping a prefix or suffix from a name. I hope you understand that Mc and Mac are exactly the same thing, just abbreviations. People commonly signed their own names with these abbreviations all the time.

There are many reasons why families names became altered, and without the family story to go on... you have more of a investigation to perform. Don't worry, it's actually more fun when there are missing pieces of information.

If you say great grandfather, I'm guessing the early part of the 20th century like the Scottish part of my family. They possibly came in through Ellis Island, upon leaving the gang way of the ship and signing in and the officer might have dropped the Mc/Mac right then and there.

Many people would alter their name to avoid detection from the authorities. Possibly he or some relative had a criminal record. This is more common than people like to admit. Which really has so much to do with why so many people migrated to America. It was all about having a fresh start for many people.

Good luck with your searches..

Yeah, there was a great deal to do with dock working. I will be talking to my grandmother over the next week or two (if I can get in touch with her). Apparently she knows a great deal more about it. Something about Old Man McHuish working in the docks of Scotland and then coming to America.

What a great race for finding your roots. Thanks for the Mc and Mac clerity, and hopefully I can find where he was born and all. Great history.

[McG]

Hi,

I have been looking for years now to find what family my surname falls under in order to find our tartan. The surname is Huish, and is of Welsh/ Scot decent.

I know that there are regions named Huish, and some very awesome history around the Huish clan, but to no avail I have not yet found a tartan.

This search has been going for years. If any of you can help thatd be supe-arrrrr.

On that note, my first kilt (UK) will be here today or tomorrow. I'm glad to finally join the brotherhood....and about time.

Cheers

Awricht fae Bonnie Scotland. Am afraid the only place where that name relates tae is in the land o' the auld enemy, as far doon as Dorset and Somerset.