When Clarissa Andrews was born on 29 December 1800, in Burlington, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Timothy Andrews, was 34 and her mother, Clarissa Beckwith, was 42. She married John A. Goodrich on 29 November 1818, in Franklin, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Farmington, Van Buren, Iowa, United States in 1850 and St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. She died after 1869.
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Historical Boundaries: 1837: Van Buren, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1838: Van Buren, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Van Buren, Iowa, United States
English: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .
History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
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