Ancestry of
Mitt Romney

70th Governor of Massachusetts

William Hough

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Mitt Romney — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1284 
  • Father:
  • Edward Hough 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1619 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Aug 1683 
  • Death Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Calkins
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Oct 1645 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Abiah Hough

  John Hough

  William Hough

  Jonathan Hough (Ahnentafel No:642 )

  Samuel Hough

• Sources for William Hough

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, pp. 160-161, Birth records for children.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 161, Death record for William Hough Sr..
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Gloucester Marriages, Vol. 2, Page 296, Marriage record for William Hough and Sarah Calkins.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Gloucester, Vol. 1, p. 373, Birth record for daughter Abyah Hough.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1877, Vol. 31, p. 166.
  • ⁶ Calkins, Kenneth W., ed., Calkins Family in America, Golden, Colorado: Calkins Family Association (2000), 7.
  • ⁷ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2006, Vol. 39, pp. 510-517.
  • ⁸ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2012, Vol. 45, p. 193.
  • ⁹ Huntington, E. B., A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in this Country, Ridgefield, Connecticut: M. Huntington (1884), 48.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/06/2017).
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/09/2014).
  • ¹² Walworth, Reuben H., Hyde Genealogy; or the Descendants in the Female as well as in the Male Lines, from William Hyde, of Norwich (2 vols.), Albany, NY: J. Munsell (1864), 12-13.
  • ¹³ Watkins, Walter K. and Eben Putnam, New England Ancestry of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press (1892), 15.

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