Släkthistoria för Goodey
Goodey Vad efternamn betyder
from the Middle English salutation godne dæie about 1205 godun dai about 1250 god dai after 1300 (OED ) ‘(have a God give you a) good day!’. Compare Haggerty (2) and the salutation ‘good morrow’ in Walter Godemorwe (Godemorwen) 1327 in Subsidy Rolls (Essex). Some of the following bearers may alternatively belong with (2) -3 or (4).possibly in some instances from Middle English god(e) day(e) (or dey(e)) ‘good dairy man’ (see Day). from Middle English god(e) ‘good’ + hei(e) ‘enclosed plot field’ (Old English gōd + (ge)hæg) for someone who lived ‘(at the) good enclosure’. Compare Goodacre Goodfield. variant of Goodeve whether from the Middle English female personal name Godive or from the word goodwife goody. from a reduced form of the Middle English female personal name Godith Old English Godgȳð (‘god God’ + ‘battle’). Compare Johanne Godithson 1379 in Poll Tax (Scarisbrick with Hurlston Lancs). It was sometimes confused with Goodeve in (3) as in William Godith(e) Godyth Gwodyf 1317 in Assize Rolls (Kent). Godyf widow of John Clare is also called Goditha Clare de Strode in Assize Rolls (Kent). Examples of Goody and Goodie below may alternatively belong with (1) or (3).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
