Lough Family History
Lough Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Lachtnáin
‘descendant of Lachtnán’, a personal name from
lachtna ‘gray’. This is the name of several families in
Ireland, and has more often been Anglicized as Loughlin or
Loughran, and in County Cork as Lawton.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lough
Name Distribution of Lough Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lough families
 95 - 187  32 - 94 |
 1 - 31  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lough families
|
48 - 93 17 - 47 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lough census records
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Lough Family Origin
Lough Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lough Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Lough
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