McHUGH
Pat Traynor
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>You know were i can find the history of "Mchugh" surname?
Births by county in 1890:
McHugh Leitrim 19
McHugh Fermanagh 20
McHugh Mayo 34
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Mac Aodha or Aoidhe - MacHugh - West Galway - branch of O'Flahertys
Mac Aodha or Aoidhe - MacHugh - North Galway
Mac Aodha or Aoidhe - MacHugh - Co Fermanagh
O'h-Aodha - Hughes - Ulster
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MacHugh
Along with its principal variant MacCue, MacHugh comes from the Irish Mac
Aodha or Aoidhe, from the very popular personal name Aodh, meaning 'fire'.
In various forms, Aodh is the root of a large number of common surnames
(see Hayes, Hughes and Magee). At least three distinct families in west
Ulster and Connacht adopted Mac Aodha: a branch of the O'Flahertys of
Connemara in west Galway, another family based near the modern town of Tuam
in north Galway and, in Fermanagh, a family who claim descent from Aodh, a
grandson of Donn Carrach Maguire, the first Maguire ruler of the county.
Today the surname is most numerous in Co Donegal and in north Connacht,
though it is also common in Leinster. In parts of Ulster - Fermanagh in
particular - it was considered interchangeable with Magee until quite
recently.
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The MacHugh name originates in Galway where they were chiefs.
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In the MacHugh of Ulster pedigree, AMHAILGADH of the Maguire
pedigree was the ancestor of MacAODH, anglicised as; MacHugh,
Hughson, Hewson, McCoy, McCue, MacKay, MacKey, Mackey, McKee, and Magee
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HUGHES
Hughes is common in England and Wales, where it is a patronymic, deriving
from the father's name, and quite a few Irish bearing the name,
particularly in Ulster, will be of English and Welsh stock. Elsewhere, it
is almost always one of the anglicisations of the Irish O hAodha, from the
personal name Aodh, 'fire', the second most popular such anglicisation
after 'Hayes', since Aodh was invariably translated as 'Hugh'. Perhaps
because of the example of the settlers, Hughes was the most frequent
anglicisation amongst the Gaelic Irish in Ulster, where there were O hAodha
at Ballyshannon (Co Donegal), Ardstraw (Co Tyrone), Tynan (Co Armagh),
Farney (Co Monaghan), and south Co Down. In places, too, Hughes became the
English version of Mac Aoidh or MacAodha, more usually given as Magee or
McHugh.
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