When Ester Geddes was born on 3 June 1778, in Londonderry, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Robert Geddes, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth McLellan, was 22.
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Scottish: variant of Gaddis , from the lands of Geddes in Nairnshire.
English: possibly a variant of Gedde, a nickname from Middle English gedde ‘pike’ (the fish), with post-medieval excrescent -s. However, the modern surname appears to be entirely Scottish in origin (see 1 above).
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