Brief Life History of George Nellis
When George Nellis Goldthwaite was born on 11 November 1914, in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States, his father, Walter Scott Goldthwaite, was 26 and his mother, Nellie Bly Nellis, was 22. He married Virginia Lucille Brown on 16 June 1939, in Maricopa, Pinal, Arizona, United States. He lived in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1950. He died on 21 February 1986, in Glendale, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Glendale, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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- George N Goldthwaite, "United States 1950 Census"
- George Nellis Goldthwaite, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1930"
- George N Goldthwaite, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"
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Name Meaning
English: habitational name, probably from Guilthwaite in South Yorkshire, which is named in Old Norse with gil ‘ravine’ + thveit ‘meadow’. However, the modern surname is more associated with Essex than Yorkshire, suggesting the possibility of some other source, now lost.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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