When Rolly Alexander Goodwin was born on 20 March 1872, in Wapello, Louisa, Iowa, United States, his father, Rolly L. Goodwin, was 37 and his mother, Martha E. Brown, was 28. He lived in Wapello, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Center Township, Wapello, Iowa, United States for about 40 years. He died on 19 March 1958, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Chillicothe, Wapello, Iowa, United States.
English: from the Middle English personal name Godwin (Old English Gōdwine). Compare Godwin .
Irish: adopted in Mayo for Ó Goidín, a variant of Ó Godáin, ‘descendant of Godán’, a diminutive personal name from got ‘stammering, lisping’.
History: This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. William Goodwin was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
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