The VanHoose surname goes back to Jan Fransse Van Husum/Van Hoesen b. 1608 in Husum a city in Schleswig, he married Volkje Juriaens in Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam,Holland. Jan Fransse was a Commissioner of Lands for the Dutch West India Co., and was an early settler of Ft. Orange, now Albany, N.Y. The name changed from Van Husum to Van Hoesen to Van Hooser to VanHoose.