When Mary Hume was born about 1857, in Concord, New South Wales, Australia, her father, John Hume, was 29 and her mother, Susanna Hickson, was 23.
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Scottish (Lowlands) and northern English: variant of Hulme , with loss of l before the bilabial consonant /m/, as in the vocabulary word calm. See Holm and Home .
Scottish: habitational name either from the barony of Home or from Hume (or Home) in Berwickshire, from which the barony took its name. The placename derives from Old English hōum, dative plural form of hōh ‘heel, spur of land’.
History: A family of this name (see 2 above) have held the Earldom of Home since 1605.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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