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| It is said that the worth of a family largely depends upon the women who are the mothers of the race, as through them are introduced new strains of blood which may weaken, modify or strengthen the main family characteristics. Elizabeth Hughes of Welsh, English, Dutch and Irish ancestry came from a stock of noble and ancient lineage. With other prominent Welsh families and some English the Hughes claim descent from Gwaethfoed, Lord of Powis, who was son of Gwemde, prince of Cardigan. Burk's Peerage ascribes thirty-three coats-of-arms to the Hughes name in its various spellings. The Hughes name was said to be one of the sixty most common names in England and Wales, and that less than a hundred years ago it was seventeenth in rank; one person in every 312 in England and Wales bore the name of Hewes, or Hughes. Hughes is a typical Welsh name derived from Welsh ancestry, but similarity of names is not always proof of blood relationship. The Hughes family has ever been distinguished not only by birth, but by education and literary attainments. Bards, poets, authors, ministers and schoolmasters abound in different families both in England and the United States. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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