When Brian Gough was born on 20 March 1934, his father, Harold Gough, was 34 and his mother, Edith Gregory, was 31. He died in August 1996, at the age of 62.
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Welsh: from coch, goch ‘red(-haired)’. The mutated form goch is normal after a personal name. In England, where the surname occurs from Welsh migration, it may have become hereditary in medieval times but this development was probably much later in Wales. Compare Gooch and Couch , which may sometimes derive from the same source.
English: variant of Goff .
Irish (especially Waterford and Dublin): shortened form of McGough .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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