When herbert hughes was born about 1882, in Ireland, his father, Frederick Patrick Hughes, was 31 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Mclean, was 30. He married Lillian Florence Meacham in January 1908, in Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom.
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Irish War of Independence against Britain ending in the Anglo Irish Treaty.
In the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Ireland was partitioned, with the unionist-dominated north east becoming Northern Ireland.
On Easter Monday, the anniversary of the 1916 uprising, Eire becomes the Republic of Ireland. Ireland leaves the British Commonwealth.
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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