Hughes Family History
Hughes Name Meaning
English (also common in Wales): patronymic from the Middle
English and Anglo-Norman French personal name Hugh.Welsh:
variant of Howells.Irish and Scottish: variant
Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Aodha (see McCoy).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hughes Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hughes families
 6,761 - 13,519  2,254 - 6,760 |
 1 - 2,253  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hughes families
|
962 - 1,921 321 - 961 |
1 - 320 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hughes census records
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Hughes Family Origin
Hughes Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hughes Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hughes Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hughes census records
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Military Service by Hughes
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