When John Godber was born in 1732, in Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Godber, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Hall, was 41. He married Hannah Hanfield on 18 February 1757, in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Radford, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881.
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English (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire):
most probably a nickname from Middle English god(e), gud(e) ‘good’ + b(i)er ‘beer’, a metonymic occupational name for a brewer or a nickname for a toper. Compare Goodall .
alternatively, perhaps a nickname from medieval catchphrase, either God be her ‘May God be here (i.e. in this house)’ or gōd be her ‘may good be here’. Such phrasal names were common in England in the Middle Ages, although most have now died out.
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