When Lydia Dodge Gott was born on 25 December 1815, in Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, United States, her father, Nathaniel Gott, was 24 and her mother, Jane Richardson Dodge, was 18. She married Thomas B Finney on 26 September 1839, in Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1865. She died on 8 December 1893, in Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Southwest Harbor, Hancock, Maine, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Maine is the 23rd state.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
German: from a short form of the various ancient Germanic compound personal names with the first element gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’.
South German and Swiss German (also Gött): relationship name or nickname from Middle High German got(t)e ‘godfather’. Compare Goett .
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from the Middle English personal name Gotte. In some cases this was a pet form of Godfrey . It may also have been a pet form of other names beginning with God-, such as Goddard and Godwin . Gotte was also a simplified pronunciation of the Anglo-Norman French personal name Goz, Gots (ancient Germanic Gozzo), often used as a pet form of the Old French personal name Gocelin, which was pronounced Gotselin; see Joslin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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