When George Thomas Dudley was born on 1 February 1897, in Humphreys, Tennessee, United States, his father, Liberty Hickman Dudley, was 33 and his mother, Lucinda Margaret Chandler, was 37. He married Olivia Pearl Blackwell on 22 December 1919, in Hickman, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Civil District 4, Perry, Tennessee, United States in 1920 and Civil District 10, Benton, Tennessee, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1921. He died on 14 April 1940, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Coble, Hickman, Tennessee, United States.
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English (West Midlands): habitational name from Dudley in Worcestershire, recorded as Duddeleye, Doddeleye in the 13th and 14th centuries, named from the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd 1) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish (southern Ireland): in Ireland, when not the English name, it was adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Dubhdáleithe ‘descendant of Dubhdáleithe’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + dá ‘two’ + léithe ‘sides’.
Americanized form of French Daudelin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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