When Merritt Yerks Hughes was born on 24 May 1893, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Adoniva Judson Yerks Hughes, was 37 and his mother, Anabelle Yerks Hughes, was 33. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Grace D Hughes. He lived in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States in 1935 and Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, United States in 1940.
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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