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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 231,752 Historical Documents with Lough on Ancestry
- 54,783 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 36,411 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,070 Military Records
- 5,204 Immigration Records
- 128,284 Member Trees
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Number of Lough families
 95 - 187  32 - 94 |
 1 - 31  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lough families
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48 - 93 17 - 47 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lough 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 1881 UK Census Data
Lough census records
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