Here are some thoughts shared by other Hutt researchers:

Colin Thomson of Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland
"The earliest Hutt I have is John Hutt who married Margaret Craigge at Carnbee, Fife on 29.12.1671.""Found all this out through joining the Fife Family History Society last Autumn. I was contacted by my grandmother's 7th cousin from Nottingham, England who later sent me the Hutt tree which he in turn had received from another Hutt descendant in Plymouth, England."

"Hutt is not a surname of Scottish origin. I have been unable to find it in any reference work on Scottish surnames. In my home town there is an old lady in her nineties surnamed Hutt who has told my father that the belief in her family is that the Hutts came to Fife from Schleswig Holstein as shepherds with a flock of sheep which was imported to Tentsmuir an area near St Andrews, Fife on the Eden estuary."

"Hutt has a Germanic ring to it and I noticed on the roots pages that early enquiries about Hutt relate to Prussia and Alsace Lorraine...""The other interesting point is that prior to the union with England the Fife East Neuk ports conducted a vast trade with the Baltic ports and many Scots settled there and vice versa."

Jonathan Hutt of Scotland
Note: Jonathan writes, "my forebears came from east London and along the south side of the river between Kennington and Rotherhithe....I would appreciate if people can add to the information I've gathered that they share what they find. I have posted what information I've found at http://www.huttj.freeserve.co.uk."

"There are records relating to the name Hutt back in to the 1500's, the earliest I've found being on the Isle of Wight. The most famous of this branch of the name being Sir William Hutt who founded the New Zealand Company and who was a MP for Gibside in Gateshead.

"I have heard suggested that the name originated in central Europe, it certainly occurs frequently in Germany and possibly came to Britain with the Hugenots. There certainly are Hugenot connections listed in the IGI. It might also suggest why the name tends to occur most frequently within the eastern side of Britain from Kent to Fife."

"Whilst Hutt is not that common a name, it does crop up all over the place although as I said in my original email, the name tends to be biased towards the east site of the country. The main collections seem to be Cambridge, Coventry, Oxfordshire, London and Fife. There certainly are links between some of the London and Cambridge ones and from what I can gather quite a few were involved in the rag trade."

"Sir William Hutt is probably one of the most famous Hutts, there was also another Hutt, a relation of Sir William who has a memorial in Westminster Abbey for his exploits at the battle of Spithead. More recently, there is the country and western singer Hank Wangford whose name is actually Dr. Samuel Hutt."

"I'd be very interested to know whether anyone can add to the information I've gathered, particularly on the branches that are so far not even started."

Roger Hutt
"My fathers side of the family are of recent English Black Country stock and some of my ancestors were boatmen on the canals in the early part of the 19th century."

Research I have done do far indicates that the name is Germanic (Saxon) in origin. In old German "Huth" was a keeper but my preferred option is the Saxon "Hyth" which later became "Huthe" and meant an inland port. Places like Stourport and Bewdley are quite close to us and were old inland ports. I like to think that there may be a connection with my families boating history."

"I have also come across the name in Essex where apparantly there was a settlement of Huts in Epping forest and the surname derived from that."