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The following information came from a Family Tree that was compiled in the 1950s ( I believe by Edith W. Benjamin). The Haughey family in the U.S. is made up from emigrants who came from the ancestral home in County Armagh, Ireland and Down, Ireland. The name is derived from EOCHAIDHA which was the name of the fifty-first king of Ulster. The name signifies a Mounted Knight or a "Horseman". According to family lore, the earliest members of the family in America were brothers Thomas and Patrick who came to Pennsylvania (probably near Philadelphia) about 1725. Haugheys are found in marriage lists of Delaware in 1752 and tax lists in 1776. Delaware at that time was called the three lower counties of Penn. Like the family in Ireland, the first Haugheys were Catholics, but intermarriages soon resulted in the Haugheys being listed among the Quaker communities and the Presbyterians. The only information known about Thomas is that he had a son named John. No information on his other children is known at this time. If family lore is correct, we know nothing of Patrick Haughey's descendants at this time--IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION, PLEASE EMAIL ME!! It is thought that perhaps Patrick changed his last name to Hoy, though I have no proof of this. Pronunciation of the name Haughey: Despite many attempts to find a common way to pronounce this name, I have failed. Some pronounce Haughey as "Haw-Hee" (they have found me on the web). The pronunciation that my family line has used for years (this is the line that heavily settled in Bowersville, OH) is one syllable and it rhymes with "Toy". While visiting Ireland, I found that Haughey was often pronounced "Hoy-e". The "-e" is similar to the e sound in yet. Click here to see the Haughey's Underground
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