Origins
Hatch is a name derived from an old Anglo-Saxon word Hacche, meaning a door or floodgate, consisting of great stakes put up by fishermen to help in securing fish. Hacche is also a term for a bar across a woodland path to prevent deer escaping. If Henry lived near a hacche, he would be called Henry atte hacche and finally, Henry Hatch. Richard atte Hacche and Phillip de la Hacche are names in old records. The name first appears in the Domesday Book in the form of “Hache.” Hache also means a small axe or hatchet among French speaking people. The Hatch (written differently ‘Hacche; Hach’) family was established as landowners in Devonshire at an early period. There is a Hacche Barton just outside South Molton near Barnstaple in North Devon. The Hatch family of Ardee Castle in County Louth, Ireland, has the same coat of arms as the Cornwall and Devonshire families.
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