Huckstep/Hatch/Pope Ancestry

Surnames that have been verified in this ancestry:

• Huckstep/Huckstepe/Hucsteppe
• Hatch/Hatche/Hache/Hacche/Hecche
• Pope

Sources:

• Geni.com: Sarah Sutton (Tilden) 1613-1677 and reputable (i.e., well-researched) pages thereof
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume LXX, pp. 252-254, (1916).
• Huckstep Genealogy - Jaime Adams

Clicking a name will go to the corresponding Geni.com page. Do take caution as such pages need to be considered judiciously.

The Hatch Name

"The Hatch family has lived for at least six centuries in the county of Kent, England. The name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon noun haec, Middle English hacche, later hatch, meaning a gate or a wicket. ... The surname appears in the hundred of Calehill, co. Kent, as early as 1327-8, the form during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries being atte Hacche. It is clear that the name was originally assumed by a man who dwelt near or at some gate or wicket, such, for instance, as might have been found at the entrance to the village churchyard or to the grounds of the manor house. ... John at the hacche or at y^e hacche is termed John atte Hacche. ... This form of name remained in use for about two centuries, until nearly 1500, and then, as a rule, the atte either was dropped or was combined with the following word in such names as Atwell, Atwood, etc." (p. 252, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume LXX).