The Joseph & Nancy Hughes Family - A Cape Cod History

This site researches the family of Joseph L. Hughes of Boston & Cape Cod and his wife Nancy Brown Hughes of Des Moines, Iowa. It is a family almost 100% decended from the British Isles - Ireland - Scotland & England.

The paternal Hughes line is from Dublin City & County Leitrim, Ireland.

The maternal Hughes line is part decended from the lines of the Irish High King, Brian Boru through the County Clare lines of McMahon and Considine. Also from County Galway by the Kearns line.

The other Hughes maternal line is decended from the 'Mayflower' lines of Thomas Rogers & Stephen Hopkins and numerous other early settlors to SE Mass. & Cape Cod.

The Nancy Brown lines include the Dicks, Robertsons & Jacksons of Elie, Scotland - the Browns of Scotland - and Iowa pioneer families of Amsberry, Blaine, Chandler, Devore and Inman among others.