When Samuel Hough was born about 1785, in Loudoun, Virginia, United States, his father, John Hough III, was 35 and his mother, Lydia Hollingsworth, was 34. He married Mrs Samuel Hough about 1816, in Ohio, United States.
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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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