Goddard Family History
Goddard Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: from Godhard, a
personal name composed of the Germanic elements god ‘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 St. Gotthard, an 11th-century bishop of
Hildesheim who founded a hospice on the pass from Switzerland to Italy
that bears his name. This surname and the variant Godard are
also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of
one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.Possibly also an
Americanized spelling of German Gotthard (see Gothard).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Goddard
Name Distribution of Goddard Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Goddard families
 1,219 - 2,435  407 - 1,218 |
 1 - 406  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Goddard families
|
8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Goddard census records
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Goddard Family Origin
Goddard Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Goddard Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Goddard families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Goddard Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Goddard census records
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Military Service by Goddard
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