Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Hughes was born on 6 September 1739, in Douglassville, Amity Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Francis Alexander Hughes Sr, was 43 and her mother, Christina Nilsdötter Jonasson, was 44.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Hughes - Published information: birth: 6 September 1739; Douglassville, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States
- Ancestry Family Trees
- Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985
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1752
Historical Boundaries 1752: Berks, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Berks, Pennsylvania, United States
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: variant of Hugh with genitival or excrescent -s.
Irish and Scottish: adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic surnames based on the personal name Aodh ‘fire’, for example Ó hAodha, Mac Aodha; see McCoy and compare McHugh .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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