George Daniel Roddy

Male1919–17 September 1991

Brief Life History of George Daniel

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.

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George Daniel Roddy
1919–1991
Alberta H. Leight
1920–
Marriage: 11 January 1943

Sources (10)

  • George Roddy in household of Florence M Roddy, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Roddy, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Marriage Indexes, 1885-1951"
  • George D. Roddy, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    11 January 1943Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (9)

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    World Events (8)

    1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

    Age 0

    The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

    1920

    Age 1

    The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

    1941

    Age 22

    Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

    Name Meaning

    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.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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