One-Name Study for all
HARTRUM / HOTRUM /etc. Families
Welcome to the One-Name Study web pages for all HARTRUM and HOTRUM families.
The HARTRUM / HOTRUM Family Tree pages linked to this page are a compilation
of the work of many researchers documenting their ancestry. If you have any
HARTRUMs or HOTRUMs in your ancestry then this web site is also yours and we would
appreciate hearing from you. We hope you will benefit from the information
provided here and will share your findings (and any disagreements) with us.
All information about living individuals is kept in the strictest confidence.
My name is David Naylor and I am the compiler of this family tree. I live in Canada and am retired from designing computer systems for the telecommunications industry. Currently I'm spending lots of time doing those things for which I previously never had time (and still don't). My interests are computers, square dancing, cactus & other succulent plants, photography, astronomy, metaphysics and, of course, genealogy. I've been tracing my family's roots in my spare time since 1980 and this has helped to keep me out of trouble. Now I realize that doesn't tell you much about me, but what were you expecting — a full biography!?
While researching my wife's HOTRUM roots I realized that all HOTRUM and HARTRUM families were probably related. I found this very interesting and therefore decided to research them all. Except for a few unexplainable occurrences of the HARTRUM name in London, England in the 1600s, they seem unique to North America.
In New Jersey and Ontario of the late 1700s the same individuals appear with different spelling of their surname — HADERIM, HARDRAM, HARTRAM, HARTRUM, HATRAM, HATRUM, HATTERIM, HOTHERHAM, HOTRUM, HOTRAM, etc. Since many people of that day could not spell or write, their names were written as the writer heard them. And as these were Germanic-speaking folks with harsh pronunciation their names ended up every-which-way. Because these names have not been located in Europe some researchers believe that they may have been derived from some other more-common surname — suggestions for this have been HARTRANFT, HARTRUMPH, and HARTMANN. However, the earliest spellings and also family stories indicate that the name was pronounced with 3 syllables and those suggested names are all only 2 syllables.
Searches of ships' passenger lists for these names have not been very fruitful. The most interesting candidates, so far, are:
- The ship "Loyal Judith" from Rotterdam on 25-Sep-1732 – passenger "Johann Jurgh HOTREMAN", age 32. Note that this name has 3 syllables.
- The ship "Richard and Mary" from Rotterdam on 17-Sep-1753 – passenger "Christian Frederich HOTTEMAN".
- The ship "Ketty" from Rotterdam on 16-Oct-1752 – passenger "Johann Georg HARTRANFT".
Research emphasis is currently in New Jersey, USA where the earliest-known individual, "Joh: HARDRAM", was buried at Zion Lutheran Church in what was New Germantown (now Oldwick) Hunterdon County on 30 August 1784 at the age of 62. Much more data is needed from this area to prove the linkages of the early family members and to trace their roots back to Europe.
We believe that one or two families of Hartrums moved within New Jersey from Hunterdon County to an area overlapping the border between Morris and Bergen Counties in the late 1700s. Edward and George, and their families are found in the 1830 census for Pompton Township, Bergen County. In the mid-1830s these families moved to Ohio. Also moving to Ohio at about this same time was the family of Frederick Hartrum. The descendants of these three families are still mainly in Ohio, with one branch in Chicago, Illinois. Another Hunterdon County family, that of John A. Hartrum, changed the spelling of their surname to HARTRIM and their descendants are found today across the USA. We have not yet proven that all these families are connected but hope to do so using DNA testing.
From Morris County, New Jersey, one family (Conrad, wife Catharina and children) moved to Upper Canada (now Ontario,Canada) in 1793. The spelling of this family's surname became fixed as HOTRUM. Today there are hundreds of their descendants living in Canada and the USA. Some descendants of this family moved to Michigan, USA around 1860. They were the ancestors of all of the HOTRUMs now living in south-west Michigan and Washington state.
We are now using DNA testing to help discover the original ancestral surname, to verify that the family tree as we have it appears correct, and to see if the various unconnected branches of HARTRUM and HOTRUM families have common ancestors. For this purpose we need male individuals with the HARTRUM, HARTRIM or HOTRUM surname (and even a BRONSON) to supply a DNA sample (by means of a mouth swab) for testing. Those individuals will get the results which may show their likely origins and whether or not they connect to other individuals around the world that have been tested. Go to our DNA page for further information.
- To see the listings of individuals in the Hartrum/Hotrum Family Tree use one of these links:
The Hartrum/Hotrum Family Tree pages
– start with the Surnames page and click through to pages for each individual.- or . . .
. . . browse the Hartrum/Hotrum Dynamic Family Tree.
Wait for a tree icon to appear between the dots then click on that icon.
Then wait further for the database to load — indicated by your web browser.
(I know . . . that's why it's called the World Wide Wait!!)
With the latest Java update you may need to double-click the tree icon. If it still doesn't work it's likely because you don't have Java installed, or you have "active content" restricted by your web browser — see if your browser is displaying a security message below its "Address" line.
The Hartrum/Hotrum DNA page
– see how DNA testing is helping our genealogy research.
Please
send us an e-mail
if you have any information about HARTRUM / HOTRUM family members of any era,
or wish to discuss any of these individuals or their relatives. Address
snail mail to: 9091 Eighth Line, RR 2, Georgetown, ON, Canada L7G 4S5.
Credits — persons who have contributed to this One-Name Study.
Go
to the HARTRUM Message Board — ask questions, etc.
Subscribe (free) to the HARTRUM Mailing List
and join with others in discussing and researching the HARTRUM families.
Browse the HARTRUM Mailing List's archives.
Search the archives of all Mailing Lists or limit your search to only the HARTRUM list.
Go to the HOTRUM Message Board — ask questions, etc.
Subscribe (free) to the HOTRUM Mailing List
and join with others in discussing and researching the HOTRUM families.
Browse the HOTRUM Mailing List archives.
Search the archives of all Mailing Lists or limit your search to only the HOTRUM list.
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Dave Naylor's personal web pages.
If you find something in my pages that doesn't look right or if you have (polite) suggestions please
send me an e-mail.
Please appreciate that genealogical work is always subject to revision.
If you copy some of this data then please add a citation referring to this web site
so that others may see if our research data has been updated.
Last updated: 6 September 2008
