Hugh Family History
- Hugh Name Meaning
- English: from the Old French personal name Hu(gh)e, introduced to Britain by the Normans. This is in origin a short form of any of the various Germanic compound names with the first element hug ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’. Compare, for example, Howard 1, Hubble, and Hubert. It was a popular personal name among the Normans in England, partly due to the fame of St. Hugh of Lincoln (1140–1200), who was born in Burgundy and who established the first Carthusian monastery in England. In Ireland and Scotland this name has been widely used as an equivalent of Celtic Aodh ‘fire’, the source of many Irish surnames (see for example McCoy).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 353,289 Historical Documents with Hugh on Ancestry
- 92,900 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 86,771 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,239 Military Records
- 18,824 Immigration Records
- 144,555 Member Trees
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Number of Hugh families
 72 - 142  25 - 71 |
 1 - 24  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hugh families
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42 - 81 15 - 41 |
1 - 14 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hugh census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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