When Catherine Ethel Hughes was born on 29 August 1880, in Waverley, New South Wales, Australia, her father, Henry James Hughes, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Mary Bourke, was 30. She married Edward Frederick Burke on 2 April 1902, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 26 March 1952, in Haberfield, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 71.
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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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