Brief Life History of John
When John Goodman was born about 1807, in Ireland, his father, William Goodman, was 26 and his mother, Ann Hagar Fitzgerald, was 20.
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World Events (4)
1839
The Night of the BIG WIND. In Killarney and its neighborhood there was a terrible hurricane. The town sustained much damage and many houses were shattered.
1845
The Irish Potato Famine. Many Irish emigrate to America. Irish population drops from 8 million to 6 million due to death from starvation or emigration.
1919
Irish War of Independence against Britain ending in the Anglo Irish Treaty.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Godeman, Old English Gōdmann, composed of the elements gōd ‘good’ or god ‘god’ + man ‘man’.
English: status name from Middle English gode ‘good’ + man ‘man’, in part from use as a term for the master of a household. In Scotland the term denoted a landowner who held his land not directly from the crown but from a feudal vassal of the king.
English: from the Middle English personal name Gudmund, Godmund (from the Old English personal name Gūthmund, composed of the elements gūth ‘battle’ + mund ‘protection’, or the Old Norse cognate Guthmundr).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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