When Mudge was born on 30 November 1862, in Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Augustus Mudge, was 42 and his mother, Lucy Ann Wentworth, was 41. He died on 30 November 1862, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
English (Devon): nickname from Middle English mugge, either a southwestern dialect form of Old English mycg ‘midge, fly’ or (anywhere in England) representing an unrecorded Old English mugga (probably attested in Old English mugwyrt ‘mugwort’) with the same meaning.
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