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Help[Surname] Golding
I have to find the meaning of my last name for a World Geography project. It its Golding, and it comes from England, an alternate spelling is Goulding. That is all i know. Please help.
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From a male given name according to the experts. Basil Cottle says "son of Gold", and Paul Reaney gives instances of this as a forename, e.g., Golding Aldred of Clerkenwell, Middlesex in 1224. There is a place-name Golding in Shropshire, "valley where marigolds grow", Old English GOLDE DENU.
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