Jane Godwin was born in 1856, in Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Kingston, Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1871.
English:
from the common Old English personal name Godwine, a compound of god ‘god’ + wine ‘friend, protector, lord’, which survived the Conquest. Compare Goodwin , with which it has most probably been confused.
alternatively, the name may occasionally derive from an Old English female personal name Godwynn.
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