When Theodoric F C Dodd was born on 24 March 1836, in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States, his father, Isaac Dodd, was 47 and his mother, Agnes Clark, was 47. He married Eliza Cadwallader on 30 September 1860, in LaPorte, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Galena Township, LaPorte, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Cedar Township, Wilson, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 8 March 1905, in Altoona, Wilson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Altoona Cemetery, Altoona, Wilson, Kansas, United States.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Dodd(e), Dudd(e), Old English Dodd(a), Dudd(a), a name of uncertain origin which remained in fairly widespread and frequent use from Lincolnshire to Devon and from Essex to Lancashire in England until the 14th century.
English: nickname from Middle English dod, a word of uncertain meaning, possibly a ‘lumpish, thickset person’ (compare modern English dialect dod ‘bunch or heap’), or by extension a ‘foolish person’ (compare Middle English dode-mused ‘stupid’), or perhaps a derivative of dodden ‘to shave (the head), to trim (hair)’, hence ‘the hairless or close-cropped one’.
English: possibly a modern variant of Daud or Dowd, the former arising from the Middle English personal name Daud(e), an extended form of Daw , and the latter from the Middle English personal name Doude, perhaps a side-form of either Dodde or of Daude, a pet form of Ralph .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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