When Marietta Effie Dodd was born on 19 April 1856, in Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States, her father, Josiah Farrand Dodd, was 38 and her mother, Eleanor Carhuff, was 24. She married John Ward Grummond about 1879, in Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in East Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States for about 10 years. She died on 17 December 1922, in New Jersey, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in New Jersey, United States.
English: from the Middle English personal name Dodd(e), Dudd(e), Old English Dodd(a), Dudd(a), a name of uncertain origin which remained in fairly widespread and frequent use from Lincolnshire to Devon and from Essex to Lancashire in England until the 14th century.
English: nickname from Middle English dod, a word of uncertain meaning, possibly a ‘lumpish, thickset person’ (compare modern English dialect dod ‘bunch or heap’), or by extension a ‘foolish person’ (compare Middle English dode-mused ‘stupid’), or perhaps a derivative of dodden ‘to shave (the head), to trim (hair)’, hence ‘the hairless or close-cropped one’.
English: possibly a modern variant of Daud or Dowd, the former arising from the Middle English personal name Daud(e), an extended form of Daw , and the latter from the Middle English personal name Doude, perhaps a side-form of either Dodde or of Daude, a pet form of Ralph .
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