Hello Distant Hough Relatives!
due to the miracle of google books and the search engine that highlights names, and thanks to many hundreds of hours of reading and vetting those books, i now have extensive and mostly factual evidence of my personal Hough lineage dating back to the late 1400's. If unproven connections hold true, its possible to get as far back as 1245, but i have yet to get that far in terms of factual evidence. id like to share what ive found in my own line and id also like to tell all Hough's out there reading this, that we are ONLY from the Cheshire region of England ( encompassing all of those 'Shires and what have you. But that general region), and no where else in the entire world. In Fact, all Hough's currently living on earth are directly related to one another and eventually derive from one 'Hill somewhere out there in the pastures of western England. This, is indisputable in my research. There are some connections made by way of family journal, passenger records, and very old perish records... And if one Geneologist i read is correct, its possible the Hough's were around when Deva Vitrix was in operation(Roman Settlement) and theory would speculate at that age that our family was evolving there for the duration in Cheshire, even in neolithic times. Some of the oldest blood in England! Here is my proven Geneology from myself all the way back to Thomas Hough. One particular portion of note is the section from Richard Hough to William Hough(the American Immigrant). The official statement from English records is that Richards son William married Thomas Cromwells illigitimate daughter Jane and only had one daughter. This was found to be untrue as Perish records have them 4 counties over as a family of 5 years later with 2 boys and 3 girls, the youngest boy dying before maturity. The reason for this is Richard Hough denounced his son William for not following his religious path. He famously removed William from his will and left his land to his sister upon his death. This is all public record, but Richard was the right hand man of the right hand man of the kind of England. He(Richard) started out as Cromwells house man (all Hough men in England were house men or Carpenters), and eventually became his best friend and then bodyguard of sorts, or "agent" as he is described in court records. His dismissal of his son William begets this dispairagment in the geneological tree- he truly did not William to have any connection to him at all. While its harder to prove these things with the age of the documents and information being dealt, there are certain "leaps of faith" in geneology, and with the names matching up and regions, and the ages of those in question, it is my belief that this is indeed what happened here. So! Richards son William had a son named William II. William II had a son named Edward. Edward had a son named William III. William became one of the very first English settlers in America in 1640 with Reverend Blinman and the Welsh Party (even though they were not Welsh) and his father Edward came to live with him later in his life. Because of this, my Line of Hough draws to Thomas Hough like this (and i hope this is helpful to you and not just a soggy read! Also, if there is someone in England who can get me to William Hough the immigrant a different way, im open to hearing how that is)
My name is Lindsay Austin Hough b. 1980
My Father was Phillip Geoffrey Hough 1944-2008
His Father was Paul Emerson Hough 1915-1987
His Father was Harrison Elbert Hough 1881 - 1950
His Father was Freeman Ferdinand Hough 1849-1925
His Father was Asahel Alonzo Hough II 1830-1899
His Father was Asahel Alonzo Hough I 1793-1874
His Father was Buell Hough 1748 - 1835
His Father was Ebenezer Hough 1726-1758
His Father Was James Hough 1688-1740
His Father was Samuel Hough 1653-1718
His Father was William Hough III (the American immagrant) 1619- 1683
His Father was Edward Hough 1590-1672
His Father was William Hough II 1556-1600
His Father was William Hough I (the religious defector) 1525-1585
His Father was Richard Hough 1508-1574
His Father was John Hough 1475-1543
His Father was Thomas Hough b.1448 - unknown death
im looking for help in verifying that disparagement and connecting to the proven older lines. Any and all help is sincerely appreciated. Happy Hunting!
