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Profiles

  • Abiah Douglas (1648 - 1715)
    The death information of 1715 comes from the Ancient Cemetery in New London, where she was buried. There appears to be no source for the alternative date of 1714.
  • Abigail Hough (1753 - 1838)
    Abigail Huntington Hough BIRTH 3 Jan 1753 Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA DEATH 27 Oct 1838 (aged 85) Lebanon, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA BURIAL Cole Cemetery, Lebanon, Graft...
  • Alfred J. Hough (1834 - d.)
  • Andreas Hough, SV/PROG (1740 - c.1815)
    HAUK ANDREAS. - Camberg. Arr. 1757 as so., farmhand 1760-65, b. 1765, a tailor. ~ 1.9.1765 Christina v. Zyl. 10 children. + 1815. (Rq. 1765: 55; CJ 1147: 68; Test. O.C. 70: 56; G.R. nr. 198.) - Dr. J....
  • Anna Hough (1706 - 1790)
    Anna Bingham m. with THOMAS BALDWIN on May 5, 1730, and they settled in that part of Norwich now Bozrah.Children were: Anna (2/3/1731; m. Bentley), Abigail (7/28/1732; m. John Hough, s of Capt. John Ho...

About the Hough surname

history

The Hough surname in one South African family originated when a German soldier Andreas Hauk changed his name to Hough when acquiring citizenship in South Africa. This happened around 1765.

other possible versions of this surname

There is another source of the name in South Africa apparently originating in England or Scotland that was brought over to South Africa by immigrants. There is a town called Hough in England. The meaning of the name is "hill".