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Good: Origin, Geographical Distribution
Same as Goodwin or Gooden, derived from God or good, Sax., and win, conqueror, that is, a conqueror in God, converted or victorious in God. In one of those battles fought between Edmund the Anglo-Saxon, and Canute the Dane, the Danish army being routed and forced to fly, one of their principal captains named Ulf lost his way in the woods. After wandering all night, he met at daybreak a young peasant driving a herd of oxen whom he saluted, and asked hia name. '1 am Godwin, the son of Ulfhoth,' said the young peasant, 'and thou art a Dane.'
Good Surname Origin
Good: Place of Origin :  Oxfordshire (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom) |  Lancashire (United Kingdom) |  Cork (Ireland) |  Lothian (United Kingdom) |  Wiltshire (United Kingdom)
Good: Online Family Trees
GOOD Hull, Royaume Uni (Humberside, England, United Kingdom) 1813 - 1813
GOOD Leicester (Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom) 1974 - 1974
GOOD Maidstone (Kent, England, United Kingdom) 1905 - 1905
GOOD Retford (Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom) 1868 - 1868
GOOD Sheffield, West Riding Of Yorkshire (South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom) 1891 - 1891
GOOD Londres (Angleterre) (London, England, United Kingdom) 1950 - 1950
GOOD England (England, United Kingdom) 1665 - 1665
GOOD Sussex (England, United Kingdom) 1587 - 1587
GOOD Jersey, Channel Is (Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom) 1990 - 1990
GOOD Londres (London, England, United Kingdom) 1947 - 1947

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Good: Famous Genealogies
 The surname Good is related to the following famous family trees :
        MONOD Théodore born MONOD Théodore André (1902 - 2000)
Good: Books that contain this surname
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GOODA catalogue of the names of the early Puritan settlers of the colony of Connecticut : with the time of their arrival in the country and colony : their standing in society, place of residence, condition in life, where from, business, &c., as far as is found on record collected from records
Author: Hinman, R. R. (Royal Ralph), 1785-1868 - Published in 1852
... 18, 1818, and had children, Samuel Good and Rebecca Charlotte. He m. for his second wife, Julia, daughter of Daniel ...
GOODThe descendants of John Porter of Windsor
Author: Andrews, Henry Porter, 1822- - Published in 1893
... who married April 29, 1656, Hannah Good-tn-Q% daughter of ICdmund Goodkxo, and wife Anne, from Wiltshire, England, to Sudbury, Mass., ...
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