When William Goodwin was born in 1799, in Kingsley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his mother, Ellen Goodwin, was 34 and his father, John Goodwin, was 40. He married Martha Mosley on 3 October 1831, in Kingsley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 4 January 1856, in Kingsley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 57, and was buried in Kingsley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Godwin (Old English Gōdwine). Compare Godwin .
Irish: adopted in Mayo for Ó Goidín, a variant of Ó Godáin, ‘descendant of Godán’, a diminutive personal name from got ‘stammering, lisping’.
History: This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. William Goodwin was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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