When Walter John Hughes was born on 24 November 1886, in Table Grove, Fulton, Illinois, United States, his father, George Freeman Hughes, was 27 and his mother, Lura Dean Bailey, was 27. He married Gladys Ann Soldwell on 29 September 1914, in Knox, Illinois, United States. He lived in Elba Township, Knox, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 30 years. He died on 17 January 1986, in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States, at the age of 99.
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1886–1986 Male
1909–1998 Female
1859–1914 Male
1859–1935 Female
1886–1986 Male
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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