When Gordon Gene "Rusty" Goodwin was born on 21 June 1951, in Grapevine, Tarrant, Texas, United States, his father, Curtis Jefferson Goodwin, was 24 and his mother, Mary Louise Sanders, was 24. He died on 25 September 2011, in Paradise, Wise, Texas, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Walker-Hog Branch Cemetery, Hog Branch, Washington, Texas, United States.
English: from the Middle English personal name Godwin (Old English Gōdwine). Compare Godwin .
Irish: adopted in Mayo for Ó Goidín, a variant of Ó Godáin, ‘descendant of Godán’, a diminutive personal name from got ‘stammering, lisping’.
History: This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. William Goodwin was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
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