When Elizabeth Hughes was born in 1805, in Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Hugh Hughes, was 25 and her mother, Lowry Jones, was 23. She married Charles Davies on 14 September 1835, in Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1841. She died in United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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