Mary Pernecy Goddard

Brief Life History of Mary Pernecy

When Mary Pernecy Goddard was born on 14 November 1876, in Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Joseph Goddard, was 25 and her mother, Mary Delilah Williams, was 18. She married Peter William Cromley on 25 December 1893, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880 and Judicial Township 1, San Mateo, California, United States in 1910. She died on 30 October 1944, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Colma, San Mateo, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Peter William Cromley
1866–1951
Mary Pernecy Goddard
1876–1944
Marriage: 25 December 1893
Irene Pernecy Cromley
1896–1972
Fay Cromley
1902–1980

Sources (20)

  • Mary P Lyons in household of Joseph E Lyons, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Mary Goddard, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • Mary P Lyons, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

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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