When Septimus Hough was born in 1767, in Bucks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Hough Jr, was 37 and his mother, Mary Carrell Tompkins, was 28. He married Edith Willson in 1796, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Solebury, Solebury Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States in 1830 and Mahoning Township, Carbon, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. He died on 4 May 1852, in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Mahoning Township was first settled in 1775 and incorporated in 1786. At first it was part of Northumberland County, which was huge, and then Columbia County, which split from Northumberland in 1813.
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English (Lancashire and Cheshire): from Middle English hoʒ, Old English hōh ‘heel, spur of land, ridge’. The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived by such a feature, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Hough in Cheshire. This name has the same origin as Howe : Hough is from the nominative case (Old English hōh), while Howe from the dative singular. See also Howes .
Irish: variant of Haugh .
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