Lottie Celesta (Hauenstein) Finch

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Lottie Celesta was born in 1883. Lottie Celesta Hauenstein ... She passed away in 1969. ^[1] Hauenstein Coat of Arms / Hauenstein Family Crest The surname of HAUENSTEIN is a German and Ashkenazic Jewish occupational name for a butcher, a woodcutter or stone-mason and the Hauenstein women made lace, one group made black lace and the other made white. Lottie's family made white lace. The name was derived from the Old German word HAUER meaning to chop or hack. The name is also spelt HAUER, HEUER, HEWERSTEIN, HEWAR and has been Anglicized to HACKER. Hereditary surnames were originally imported from France into England during the Norman Conquest of 1066. In the two centuries or so after the Conquest surnames were acquired by most families of major landholders, and many landed families of lesser importance. There appears to have been a constant trickle of migration into Britain between about the years 1200 and 150O, mostly from France and the Low Countries, with a small number of migrants from Scandinavia, Germany, Italy and the Iberian peninsular, and occasional individuals from further afield. During this period groups of aliens settled in this country as for example, the Germans who from the late 15th century onwards settled in Cumbria to work the metal mines. Immigration during this time had only a small effect on the body of surnames used in Britain. In many cases, the surnames of immigrants were thoroughly Anglicised. The late sixteenth century saw the arrival, mostly in London and the south-coast ports of large numbers of people fleeing from the war regions of France. Early records of the name in England mention Henry HACKER, who was documented in County Lincolnshire, 1273. William HACCER of County Somerset, was recorded in the year of 1300 and Geoffrey de la HAK of Yorkshire, was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. The word Heraldry is derived from the German HEER, (a host, an army) and HELD, (champion): the term BLASON, by which the science is denoted in French, English, Italian and German, has most probably its origin in the German word 'BLAZEN' (to blow the horn). Whenever a new knight appeared at a Tournament, the herald sounded the trumpet, and as competitors attended with closed vizors, it was his duty to explain the bearing of the shield or coat-armour belonging to each. Thus, the knowledge of the various devices and symbols was called 'Heraldry'. The Germans transmitted the word to the French, and it reached England after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

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1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Rosalind Alley, Friday, September 12, 2014.

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