When William Mudge was born about 1720, in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Mudge, was 30 and his mother, Lydia Bennett, was 25. He married Sarah Langfield on 19 January 1744, in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 13 January 1793, in his hometown, at the age of 74.
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English (Devon): nickname from Middle English mugge, either a southwestern dialect form of Old English mycg ‘midge, fly’ or (anywhere in England) representing an unrecorded Old English mugga (probably attested in Old English mugwyrt ‘mugwort’) with the same meaning.
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