When Henry George Roughley was born on 6 January 1857, in Colinton, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Thomas Roughley, was 28 and his mother, Christina Purvis, was 28. He died on 18 March 1922, in Oshawa, Ontario, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 65.
English: habitational name from Roughlee in Lancashire. The placename derives from Old English rūh ‘rough’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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