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HUTCHISON Family History

This is a patronymic i.e. "the son of Huchun", a diminutive form of the personal name "Hugh" (from the Old German "hug", meaning "heart" or "soul"). St. Hugh of Lincoln (1140 - 1200) founded the first Carthusian Monastery in England; the popularity of the name was, in part, due to him. One Huchun Aleyn was recorded in the 1277 Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield, Yorkshire. The name was adopted as a surname by the end of the 13th Century: Gilbert Huchun, recorded in the Subsidy Rolls of Sussex, dated 1296.