Hague in my family tree
1: Scots (Norman): habitation name from any of various places in Northern France named from Old Norse hagi enclosure, a word with cognates in most Germanic languages. 2: English: topographic name for someone who lived by an hedged or fenced enclosure (Old English haga), or habitation name from a place named with this word (or its Old Norse cognate hagi), especially three places called Haigh, two in West Yorkshire and the other near Manchester. 3: in a few cases perhaps, a local name from The Hague in the Netherlands, Dutch Den Haag, from haag enclosure, a cognate of the Old Norse and Old English words.
Variant: Haigh (chiefly Yorkshire).
Cognates: Danish, Norwegian: Hagemann. Dutch: Haag, Haagen, Hageman, Hagen, Hagenaar, Verhagen. Flemish: Van der Haeghe, Verhaeghe. Frisian: Haagsma. German: Hag, Hage, Häge; Hager, Häger; Hagemann, Hegemann, Heggemann. Low German: Haag. Swedish: Hageman, Hagman.
Diminutives: German: Hägle, Hegel, Hegel(e).
Compounds: Swedish: Hagberg (enclosure hill); Haglund (enclosure grove); Hagstedt (enclosure homestead); Hagstrand (enclosure shore); Hagström (enclosure river).
The Scottish Borders family of Haig came originally from La Hague in Manche, Normandy. Their first ancestor in Scotland was Petrus del Hage, whose name appears on documents of the 1160s. The direct line died out in 1867 and the ancestral manor of Bemersyde passed into other hands, but in 1921 it was purchased by the nation and presented to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928), who had been created 1st Earl Haig in 1919.
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