The name ‘Madden’ originates from Ireland. It is and Anglicised form of the Gaelic name O’madaidhin ‘descendant of Maddaidhin’, a personal name from a diminutive of ‘madadh’ meaning hound, mastiff. Compiled information from Historical and Private archive’s has confirmed that the surname ‘Madden’ and or it’s variant’s, dates as far back as the reign of Edward I, were a ‘Jordan Le Madde’, from Lancaster, England, is recorded. The exact period of settlement in North America has not been definitely determined but Information extracted from Public and Civil registry archive’s confirm that one of the first settlers was a certain ‘John Madden’, aged seventeen, a weaver by trade, from the city of London, England. He immigrated to North America in seventeen hundred and seventy-five, sailing from the Port of London aboard the ship named the ‘Royal Charlotte’ on the twenty-seventh of March 1775, arriving in Maryland on the third of April of the sa…
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