THE WALTERHOUSE FAMILY PAGE
From the Don Walterhouse family of Slidell, LA.
Updated July 20, 2002
PURPOSE
: To provide a place for Walterhouse family researchers to share their research.ELIGIBILITY
: All members of a WALTERHOUSE family either by birth, marriage or adoption are invited to place their names on the list of family members. If you are interested, submit your name, e-mail address, homepage address and a short genealogy note. Contact walterho@bellsouth.net
ORIGIN OF THE NAME
WALTERHOUSE is probably a surname that comes from a place-name, whether English or German. Ernest Thode, American-German specialist, cites Brechenmacher's etymological dictionary of German surnames, which lists WALTERSHAUSEN from a place-name Waltershausen occurring as early as 1383.
He suggests that the best way to find the origin of the surname is to go back to the immigrant ancestors and ask these questions: Did the immigrant ancestor have a German name? Did he live with, associate with and marry persons with German names or religions? Or did he have an English sounding name and associated with persons having English sounding names and religions? Is he buried with tombstones all around inscribed in German or with nothing but English-speaking people?
Another factor obscuring the origin of the surname and making research difficult is that it is frequently indexed as WATERHOUSE. Misspellings include WATERHOUSE, WATTERHOUSE and WALLERHOUSE.
It appears Walterhouse is another form of Waterhouse and according to the Dictionary of Surnames (Oxford, 1988) by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, Waterhouse is an English name found mainly in Yorkshire, Lancashire and the Midlands and is simply a "topographical name for someone who lived in a house by a stretch of water".
I received this information from the Surrey County Archivist in Surrey England in response to an inquiry about the surname Walterhouse mentioned in a surname index to Banstead baptisms and burials.
PROGENITORS Our common roots
OUR FAMILY TREE Don Walterhouse' family lineage
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Philip Benjamin Walterhouse Photo
John Wesley Walterhouse Photo
Rosa Lee Baldwin Walterhouse Photo
Edward Francis Walterhouse Family Photo.
I have decided to do a page for each of Philip's children.
They will be narrative style and include as much detail as possible.
I welcome corrections or additions.
Silas C. Walterhouse Family Photo 
Margaret Matilda Walterhouse Family Photo
Olive Matilda Sanderlin Nickerson Family Photo
William Lafayette Walterhouse Photos
William Orville Walterhouse Photo
Eliza Catherine Walterhouse Photo
ON THE NET Internet addresses for Walterhouses;
SNAIL MAIL Postal addresses for Walterhouses
LAGNIAPPE About us and a story about where we live
1999 -- A YEAR TO CELEBRATE Two special events for our family
FIRST YOU MAKE A ROUX A Cajun dictionary
WALTERHOUSES "COUSINS"
Can you supply the missing links?I have moved all our unconfirmed "cousins" to a new site that also lists various Waterhouse/Walterhouse names.
The new site will not be up for a few weeks.
For those of you who like flying stories, I have added a true tale of high adventure on a routine weather mission.
Click here to read it
Into the SeaNot many of you know that I have a fairly uncommon chronic autoimmune disease called scleroderma that causes me some health problems. I have probably had it for a long time but it wasn't diagnosed until 1980. I was very ill in 1969 and so I may have had it as long ago as that. There is no known cause, no cure and very little treatment. Fatigue, muscle weakness, and digestive disturbances are my biggest problems. But I have been very fortunate that the disease has progressed so slowly and in an effort to help myself and others, I am active in a Scleroderma Support group in Slidell. I hope you will take a minute and visit our site. Click
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A word of thanks to our sons David and Ken Walterhouse for their help in setting up this site. I couldn't have done it without you!
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