The mcgough Surname

mcgough Name Meaning and History

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Eochadha, a patronymic from the personal name Eochaidh, variant Eachaidh, ‘horseman’, a derivative of each ‘horse’.

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The mcgough name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the mcgough family name as far back in history as possible.

mcgough Family Facts

Name Distribution (US)Name Distribution (UK)Name Distribution (Scotland)Place of Origin Immigration Year Ports of Departure Life Expectancy Occupations Civil War Service

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Distribution of mcgough Families in the US in 1920

Number of mcgough families

33-63

12-32

1-11

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Thread	Author	Replies
McGough/McGoona/ Sarah Ryan	wingnuttwotwo	0
McGough-baker from Belfast	AmandaMcGough66	5
McGough, Tuam, Co.Galway, Ireland	Valerie McGough	27
James McGough/Esther Campbell - Boston, MA. 1872 -?	Elisabeth_Robinson	2
MCGOUGH GOFF MULROONEY MCGREEVY	arlenegoff58	0
Charles McGough	VLewis5	0
Charles McGough	VLewis5	0
JayHugh McGough born in AL, in AR by 1861	wjuneau1	4
MCGOUGH	Ruth Jordan Thoden	4
Mary Rebecca McGough born 1848	KlochWendlandt	0

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