When Godiva Grace Geary was born on 24 March 1891, in Greenock Township, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, her father, Robert William Geary, was 31 and her mother, Jessie Pascoe Burgess, was 25. She lived in Ontario, Canada in 1891 and Welland, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She was buried in Niagara Falls, Welland, Ontario, Canada.
Irish (Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gadhra ‘descendant of Gadhra’ (see O'Gara ).
Irish: alternatively, possibly a shortened form of McGeary .
English: from the Old French personal name Geri, ancient Germanic Geric, from gēr ‘spear’ + rīc ‘power(ful)’.
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