Penelope Goodman

Brief Life History of Penelope

Penelope Goodman was born about 1794, in Sampson, North Carolina, United States as the daughter of Goodman and Silva Stanley. She married Gabriel Lee Bourland on 14 June 1814, in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Madisonville, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States in 1870. She died on 15 November 1873, in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Madisonville, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

Gabriel Lee Bourland
1794–1885
Penelope Goodman
1794–1873
Marriage: 14 June 1814
John H Bourland
1815–
Eliza Bourland
1826–
Oliver Perry Bourland
1816–1855
Martin Gabriel Bourland
1819–
William Duke Bourland
1823–1866
Julia A. Bourland
1828–1912
Humphrey Gabriel Bourland
1830–1858

Sources (13)

  • Penelope Bowland in household of G S Bowland, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Penelope Goodman, original marriage return, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Gabriel L. Bourland, military land warrant

World Events (8)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

1807

Historical Boundaries: 1807: Hopkins, Kentucky, United States

1818 · Jackson Purchase

The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English personal name Godeman, Old English Gōdmann, composed of the elements gōd ‘good’ or god ‘god’ + man ‘man’.

English: status name from Middle English gode ‘good’ + man ‘man’, in part from use as a term for the master of a household. In Scotland the term denoted a landowner who held his land not directly from the crown but from a feudal vassal of the king.

English: from the Middle English personal name Gudmund, Godmund (from the Old English personal name Gūthmund, composed of the elements gūth ‘battle’ + mund ‘protection’, or the Old Norse cognate Guthmundr).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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