When Josiah Goddard was born on 12 July 1701, in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Josiah Goddard, was 28 and his mother, Rachel Davis, was 28. He married Mary Biglo on 15 October 1730, in Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 21 October 1758, in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 57, and was buried in East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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English (of Norman origin): from Godhard, a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’ + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’. The name was popular in Europe during the Middle Ages as a result of the fame of Saint Gotthard, an 11th-century bishop of Hildesheim who founded a hospice on the pass from Switzerland to Italy that bears his name. This surname is also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
English: perhaps occasionally a variant of the occupational name Gothard . The two surnames may have been much confused.
French: variant of Godard , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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