When Elizabeth Janet Geddes was born in 1888, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, her father, Andrew Geddes, was 39 and her mother, Ellen Coughlin, was 36. She died in 1978, in her hometown, at the age of 90.
Scottish: variant of Gaddis , from the lands of Geddes in Nairnshire.
English: possibly a variant of Gedde, a nickname from Middle English gedde ‘pike’ (the fish), with post-medieval excrescent -s. However, the modern surname appears to be entirely Scottish in origin (see 1 above).
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