This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: house Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SFk.2ACIB/923.1 Message Board Post: This may or may not be of help. I spent about 6 hours today looking through the HOUSE surname in NY in Cortland, Onondaga, Madison and Chenango counties and recall seeing an Abraham. I was reviewing the 1830, 1840 and 1850 Fed Census indexes for NY state. There are a couple of dozen entries for these counties (all near Oneida and Syracuse) for HOUSE surnames.