When Major Edward Alexander Houghton was born on 21 April 1765, in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Edward Livingston Houghton, was 34 and his mother, Lucretia Sabina Richardson, was 30. He married Ruth Bridgman about 1790, in Guilford, Windham, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. He died on 20 November 1845, in New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Guilford Center Cemetery, Guilford, Windham, Vermont, United States.
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English:
habitational name from any of numerous places called Houghton or Hoghton. Most of the placenames derive from Old English hōh ‘heel, spur of land’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some have different etymologies; for example, Little Houghton in Eccles (Lancashire), which derives from Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’ + tūn, and Houghton in Bigbury (Devon), which may derive from an Old English personal name Huhha + Old English tūn.
variant of Haughton .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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