Goodman Family History
Goodman Name Meaning
English: status name from Middle English gode ‘good’ +
man ‘man’, in part from use as a term for the master of a
household. In Scotland the term denoted a landowner who held his land
not directly from the crown but from a feudal vassal of the
king.English: from the Middle English personal name
Godeman, Old English Godmann, composed of the
elements god ‘good’ or god ‘god’ + mann
‘man’.English: from the Old English personal name
Guðmund, composed of the elements guð
‘battle’ + mund ‘protection’ , or the Old Norse cognate
Guðmundr.Americanized form of Jewish Gutman or
German Gutmann.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Goodman
Name Distribution of Goodman Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Goodman families
 973 - 1,944  325 - 972 |
 1 - 324  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Goodman families
|
32 - 61 11 - 31 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Goodman census records
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Goodman Family Origin
Goodman Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Goodman Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Goodman Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Goodman census records
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Military Service by Goodman
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