When Dorothy Irene Geddes was born on 17 April 1910, in London, Canada West, British Colonial America, her father, Charles Wesley Geddes, was 32 and her mother, Maud Alice Johnson, was 24. She lived in Middlesex, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 2 July 1921, in London, Canada West, British Colonial America, at the age of 11, and was buried in London Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.
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Scottish: variant of Gaddis , from the lands of Geddes in Nairnshire.
English: possibly a variant of Gedde, a nickname from Middle English gedde ‘pike’ (the fish), with post-medieval excrescent -s. However, the modern surname appears to be entirely Scottish in origin (see 1 above).
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