Martha Undine Ennis

Brief Life History of Martha Undine

Martha Undine Ennis was born on 22 October 1913, in Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She married Fred Atwood Goodwin on 25 June 1933, in Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States in 1940 and Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1950. She died on 29 January 1975, in Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Albert Edward Colby
1915–1992
Martha Undine Ennis
1913–1975
Marriage: 29 October 1944
Fred H Goodwin
1934–
Blanch O Goodwin
1936–
Phyllis Jean Goodwin
1937–
Nancy Ann Goodwin
1938–
David R Goodwin
1939–
Albert Edward Colby Jr.
1944–2004
Richard Lyman Colby
1945–2013

Sources (13)

  • Martha U Colby, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Martha Undine Ennis, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
  • Martha Undine Goodwin, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"

World Events (8)

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1916 · New Hampshire Holds First Primary

In 1916, New Hampshire held the first presidential primary election even though it would not become important until 1952.

1931

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

Name Meaning

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Aonghuis ‘son of Angus’, see McGinnis and compare Angus and Hennessy .

English: perhaps a variant of Ince , or Henney with loss of initial H- and the addition of a post-medieval excrescent -s, or a variant of Enos .

Cornish: from any of various places in the western half of Cornwall called Ennis, Enys, Ninnes, etc., from Cornish (an) enys ‘(the) island’. The Saint Gluvias family is certainly from Enys in Saint Gluvias parish.

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

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