When Alva John Coddington was born on 18 March 1862, in Tompkins, Township of Tompkins, Jackson, Michigan, United States, his father, Ansel Pratt Coddington, was 26 and his mother, Mary M. Kelly, was 26. He married Helen F. Church on 14 February 1884, in Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Barberton, Summit, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Norton Township, Summit, Ohio, United States in 1910. He died in 1918, at the age of 56, and was buried in Hart, Oceana, Michigan, United States.
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English (Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire): habitational name from any of various places, for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, and Nottinghamshire, named Coddington, from the Old English personal name Cot(t)a + -ing- denoting association + tūn ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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