When Thomas HUGHES was christened on 25 July 1762, in Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Hugh Hughes, was 25 and his mother, Catherine OWEN, was 16.
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 .
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