When Daniel Chapman Gadd was born on 25 September 1854, in Orwell, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Gadd, was 39 and his mother, Eliza Chapman, was 39. He died on 4 October 1856, in Cassa, Platte, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in Wyoming, United States.
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English: perhaps a nickname from Old French gade ‘goat’; the animal was noted for its supposedly lascivious behavior.
English: perhaps from Middle English gadde (Old Norse gaddr) ‘sharp-pointed metal spike, goad’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a cattle driver or, more likely, a nickname for a persistent and irritating person.
Swedish: apparently a nickname from gadd ‘sting’.
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Possible Related NamesEliza Chapman Gadd did not belong to the Church when she joined the Willie Handcart Company with her husband, Samuel, and eight children. Samuel caught a cold in Iowa City which turned to pneu …
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