Goodwill Family History
Goodwill Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): nickname for a friendly or amiable person,
from Middle English gode ‘good’ + will ‘desire’. The
compound is attested in the sense ‘favorable disposition’ since before
the Norman Conquest.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Goodwill
Name Distribution of Goodwill Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Goodwill families
 195 - 388  66 - 194 |
 1 - 65  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Goodwill families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Goodwill census records
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Goodwill Family Origin
Goodwill Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Goodwill Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Goodwill census records
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Military Service by Goodwill
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