Brief Life History of Dorothy
When Dorothy Goode was born in 1649, in Whitstone, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Goode, was 60 and her mother, Dorothy Penkevell, was 23.
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Family Time Line
John Goode
1590–1642
Dorothy Penkevell
1626–1680
Joanne Goode
1649–1677
Dorothy Goode
1649–
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- Virginia cousins: a study of the ancestry and posterity of John Goode of Whitby, by G. Brown Goode, (1887), p. 23: John Goode and family
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Name Meaning
English (Midlands): variant of Good . This name has been used in Ireland since the 16th century.
Possibly an Americanized form of Dutch Goede .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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