Goodson Family History
Goodson Name Meaning
English (chiefly East Anglia and East Midlands): nickname for a
dutiful son, from Middle English gode ‘good’ + sone
‘son’.English: from a Middle English survival of the Old English
personal name Godsunu, composed of the elements
god ‘good’ + sunu ‘son’.Possibly an
Americanized form of German Gutersohn, a nickname or pet name
meaning ‘good son’ for one of out of many sons.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Goodson
Name Distribution of Goodson Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Goodson families
 160 - 318  54 - 159 |
 1 - 53  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Goodson families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Goodson census records
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Goodson Family Origin
Goodson Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Goodson Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Goodson Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Goodson census records
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Military Service by Goodson
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