When Raymond Lennington Goodwin was born on 3 November 1882, in Stuart, Guthrie, Iowa, United States, his father, Thomas Andrew Godwin, was 38 and his mother, Martha Ann Lenington, was 29. He lived in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Monrovia Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 4 June 1961, in San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino, California, United States.
English: from the Middle English personal name Godwin (Old English Gōdwine). Compare Godwin .
Irish: adopted in Mayo for Ó Goidín, a variant of Ó Godáin, ‘descendant of Godán’, a diminutive personal name from got ‘stammering, lisping’.
History: This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. William Goodwin was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
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