When George Daniel Roddy was born in 1919, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Frances Thomas Roddy, was 33 and his mother, Florence May Trout, was 30. He married Alberta H. Leight on 11 January 1943, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He lived in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. He died on 17 September 1991, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Roslyn, Abington Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.
Irish:
of Galway origin, a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Rodaigh ‘descendant of Rodach’, a personal name based on rod ‘spirited, lively, strong’. Forms with vowel e derive from a variant, Ó Roidigh. Compare Redding .
shortened Anglicized form of Irish Ó Rodacháin ‘descendant of Rodachán’, a personal name which is a diminutive of rodach. This was an ecclesiastical family in Leitrim. A variant Ó Roideacháin gives Redican , for which Reddington was sometimes adopted as an Anglicized equivalent.
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