When Thomas Good was born on 28 April 1848, in Ontario, Canada, his father, John Good, was 23 and his mother, Mary Ann Ross, was 17. He married Sarah Elizabeth Harnett on 4 February 1876, in Kemptville, Oxford-on-Rideau, Grenville, Upper Canada, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 14 September 1941, in Saskatchewan, Canada, at the age of 93, and was buried in Tompkins, Gull Lake No. 139, Saskatchewan, Canada.
English: nickname from Middle English gode ‘good’ (Old English gōd).
English: from the Middle English personal name Gode, representing either Old English Goda (male) or Gode (female), in part a byname and in part a short form of various compound names with the first element gōd, or perhaps a pet form of Old French names in God- such as Godfrey .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Gut and Guth , or Dutch Goed and Goede .
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