When George Geddes was born about 27 March 1780, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Robert Geddes, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth McLellan, was 24.
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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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