My Great-Grandparent with the last name Mayhut came from eastern
Europe around 1910. The name was Majcheut and was changed to Mayhut
when they came to America. What is the origin of Majcheut. french,
ect...

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 21 Jun 2004 20:04 PDT

Hello there,

I've been following the saga of the MAYHUT questions for a while, and
even offered a bit of information on the very first question on this
name.

I've done a bit more digging around on the name Mayhut (I found
nothing on Majcheut, by the way), and just wanted to let you know what
I've found.  It may help you, googoo1-ga, or another researcher in
this quest:


The 1910 Census lists three Mayhuts:
               
   
       MAYHUT ELUED    19 M W CANADA  NH HILLSBOROUGH MANCHESTER    1910 
 
       MAYHUT JAMES S  38 M W WV      PA BEAVER       NEW BRIGHTON  1910 
 
       MAYHUT STEPHEN  42 M W HUNGARY NJ MORRIS       ROCKAWAY TWP  1910 

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Immigration records at Ellis Island show a Mayhut from Hungary:

 Mayhut, ...zana  
 Hungary 
 Arrival: June 02, 1892 
 Age: 22y 
 Gender: F 
 Ship: Rhynland 
 Port of departure: Antwerp, Belgium 

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The Mormon Church FamilySearch database lists an English Mayhut from
several centuries back:

International Genealogical Index - British Isles 

Richard Mayhut
Gender: Male 
Marriage: 15 OCT 1629 
Faxton, Northampton, England
 
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The U.S. Social Security Death Index has several Mayhuts on record in Pennsylvania:
 
Frank MAYHUT 
Birth: 25 Nov 1910  
State Where Number was Issued: Pennsylvania  
Death: 5 May 2000
 

John MAYHUT 
Birth: 21 Jul 1922  
State Where Number was Issued: Pennsylvania  
Death: 23 Apr 1997
 

Nellie MAYHUT
Birth: 18 Jun 1910  
State Where Number was Issued: Pennsylvania  
Death: 17 Dec 2002



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A search of the SuperPages Nationwide telephone book shows a total of 
7 Mayhut's in the US,  in three states:  California, Florida and Pennsylvania.


Let me know if you have any questions regarding this information, and
best of luck in your quest.


pafalafa-ga

You may be interested in the comments to this earlier question:

http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=325211

Eve Marie, 

It is nice to meet another Mayhut... 

If you'd looked in my comment on the other Mayhut question, you'd find
reference to your family, plus the assumption that the name is a
distortion of an Eastern European name: (almost) all Mayhuts and
Maihuts came from that area.

Could you please tell me how did you find out about the original name?
I failed to find anyone (at all) with that family name, and it has no
meaning - but j replaces the "y" sound in many Eastern European
languages, as well as in German. If it was written in a document, is
there a chance that some letters haven't been properly identified?

I found the early name in my baby book. It was writen in by my mother.
I will ask for her source and also ask for the information that she
recorded.

My father and mother were Frank and Nellie Mayhut, my uncle John
Mayhut.  My grandparents, Joseph and Catherine, came from
Czechoslovakia (it may have been Austria then).  They considered
themselves--and spoke--Slovak.  Mayhut is not the spelling of their
name as it was in Slovakia.  I remember seeing it spelled more than
one way including, I think, Majkhut (or something like that).  I havae
seen a copy of their marriage certivicate, but don't know where it is
right now.  Since my father was born in 1910 in PA, and was the oldest
of six living children, they obviously came some time before that.  My
Uncle John's wife Elsie Mayhut lives in Florida, along with her six
children, including John and Paul Mayhut.  I have a brother Frank in
Pittsburgh and a brother Joseph in Granite Bay, CA.  Still living are
my father's two sisters, Helen Barr in Pittsburgh, and Evelyn Fabis in
Coconut Creek, FL.  Evelyn would be the one to know when my
grandparents came to the US, and even where they were from in
Slovakia.  My parents visited the village where my grandfather lived
in Slovakia--there are still relatives there.