When George Goddard was born on 5 December 1815, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Cornelius Goddard Sr., was 31 and his mother, Mary Groce, was 35. He married Elizabeth Harrison on 10 September 1839, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom for about 26 years and Almondsbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 12 January 1899, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English (of Norman origin): from Godhard, a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’ + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’. The name was popular in Europe during the Middle Ages as a result of the fame of Saint Gotthard, an 11th-century bishop of Hildesheim who founded a hospice on the pass from Switzerland to Italy that bears his name. This surname is also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
English: perhaps occasionally a variant of the occupational name Gothard . The two surnames may have been much confused.
French: variant of Godard , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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