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Many stories and hearsay have been linked to the family name Tashtoush but one of the most repeated and most fathomable is the one from the late eighteenth century which states that the name was given to a man who was selling food to the Muslim pilgrims coming from Turkey, Syria and Palestine (or the historically so called Levant then) on the banks of river Jordan and serving it in a small pottery pots called the Tashtoush.

Historical follow-ups on the family Tashtoush indicates that the presence of the clan in the Levant region was linked to Sheikh Abdul Qadir Tashtosh who lived in Egypt in "Bab Al Sha'aria" neighborhood in the Cairo area in the tenth century and was a man of the righteous and religiously knowledgeable man (for more information can go back to book major classes of Abu talent Abdul Wahab bin Ahmed bin Ali Al Ansari Shafei of Egypt known Balharana, c 1, S135-140).The presence of the clan in the east of the Jordan area which holds now the highest most recorded Population pool number of the family members is back to the eighteenth century and it seems that this presence was the result of the migration toward Jordan (Transjordan then) and residing first in the village of (Tebneh) and later they have left to the village (Samad) and stayed there until Al Husn Town started to attract more people in the nineteenth century, and there were few land deeds and certificates of birth and marriages and deaths of some members of the tribe that indicate they were active in Al Husn Town in that period (this information was provided from the late Yusuf Ismail Tashtouh, who died in 1988 and lived 90 years, he was born around 1898, carried this info Muhammad Sulaiman Ismail Tashtoush who was born in Al Husn in 1936) (also for more information You can refer to the book Dr. Hind Abu Al Sha'ar, Irbid and around the Beni Obeid in which she stressed that the historical records indicate deeds and existence of some families in Al Husn, including Al Tashtoush during the year 1883/1884 m) and it seems that some members of the family in Aydoun (or Dion one of the Decapolis cities during the classical period which Al Husn was part of) was the same historical period where historical information indicates that the grandfather Al Tashtoush in Aydoun called Shehadeh bin Ismail lived in the town (Samad) for a period of time until he feared for his children from the Ottoman military conscription (Barlek) so he moved and he had a land there which still called (Karam Tashtoush) (this information made by the Hajj Talib Hassan Abu Dalo, a senior centenarians in Aydoun where he is currently at the age of more than 90 years "last reported Jan 2010") and this information affirms that the Tashtoush family in Aydoun and Al Husn were all present in the Town of Samad in the same historical period, In addition to the existence of the family from their relatives in Huwara attributed to Ali bin Mohammed bin Ismail, where it seems that is the brother of Shehadeh bin Ismail (the grandfather Al Tashtoush in Aydoun) and his descendants are still present there till this day.The Tashtoush family in Al Husn decent back to Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Qasim bin Ali bin Mahmoud, who fathered three sons Mofleh, Awad and Ismail whom their offspring until this day represent the family in Al Husn and the majority of the clan presence in Jordan.

The family in Aydoun is back -as pointed out previously- to Shehadeh bin Ismail (who looks through the historical context that he was born during the period from 1780 to 1800 m) where he fathered four sons: Ahmed, Mohammed, Moses, Abdul Qadir and these were ancestors of the family part in Aydoun ( which has been stated in the book of Encyclopedia of Irbid literary study of historic monuments clans statistics researcher Sultan Trikhm Almzhn geographical Sarhani p. 238, which is also the case for the town of Al Husn, as stated in the encyclopedia to the families of the town number is forty seven clans including Tashtoush, p. 245).The current presence of the clan in the Arab world was also reported in Egypt , Saudi Arabia and Iraq yet no links have been found between them and the family in Jordan yet it's worth mentioning That there is also a presence of the clan in the old town in ​​Nablus and Bruqin (between Nablus and Ramallah) in Palestine and they are considered the closest more solid link to the family origin in Jordan as many of them has migrated to Jordan long before and soon after the 1948 war and the war in 1967 and resided in Al Zarqa, Aqaba and Ajloun.

Finally, we should state that the newly reported existence of the family in the United States, Canada, Greece and Romania was basically due to immigration from Jordan during no more than 40-50 years ago.

-These information was mostly edited shaped summarized and then translated to English from the research of Dr. Hayel Tashtoush "The lineage of the Family Tashtoush".

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