Brief Life History of Mary
Mary Goodwin was born about 1691, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She married Nathaniel Gowing on 13 March 1736, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Mary Goodwin, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Godwin (Old English Gōdwine). Compare Godwin .
Irish: adopted in Mayo for Ó Goidín, a variant of Ó Godáin, ‘descendant of Godán’, a diminutive personal name from got ‘stammering, lisping’.
History: This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. William Goodwin was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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