"Like most of the great lawyers of his time he was an ecclesiastic. Andrew's Manor during the second quarter of the thirteenth century. 1311), the early English judge, son of Sir Andrew de Hengham or Hingham, was born at St. The surname Hughan was first found in Norfolk where Ralph de Hungham or Hengham, (d. The original seat of the family was, however, at Senelai (Shenley) in Buckinghamshire, held in capite by Richard de Engen or Ingaine in 1086, with Redinges in Hunts." Neots in Huntingdonshire: another at Taversham in Cambridgeshire:' two, I may add, in Essex, Colne-Engaine and Gaines, held by Sir John Engaine in 1271 by the service of keeping the King's greyhounds and one in Herefordshire, Aston Engen, now Aston Ingham.
'There are many places in England,' says Morant, 'named Gaynes, Engaines, D'Engains: one, for instance, near St. The Dutchess believes the name was originally Engaine, "from Engen or Ingen, near Boulogne: a baronial name, that has travelled down to our own times under an English disguise as Ingham. Īnother very reputable source has a very different understanding of the name.
īy 1173, the parish was known as Heingeham and probably meant "homestead of the family or followers of a man called Hega," from the Old English personal name + "inga" + "ham. The parish dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086 when it was known as Hincham.
The name Hughan comes from when the family lived at Hingham, a market-town and parish, in the incorporation and hundred of Forehoe in Norfolk. The ancient roots of the Hughan family are in the Anglo-Saxon culture.
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