When Mary Goddard was born before 31 December 1880, in Sturton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Housin George Goddard, was 25 and her mother, Mary Ellis Southerington, was 26. She married William Henry Wilson on 19 July 1898, in Aisthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Thorpe-in-the-Fallows, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Doddington, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901.
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.
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