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How to Join
Please contact the project leader Chris Goff or post a comment on this page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!
Project Goal
This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname GOFF and the variants GOFFE and GOUGH. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Please contact the project leader, add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.
Origins and Meaning
GOFF (sometimes GOFFE) is a surname with several distinct origins. It is the 946th most common family name in the United States.
When the surname originates from England it is derived from an occupational name from German, Cornish and Breton.
- The German Goff means a godly person, a strong warrior, or a priest.
- The Breton goff means "smith" (cognate with Gaelic gobha). The English-originating surname is common in East Anglia, where it is of Breton origin.
- The Welsh name is a variant of the surname GOUGH, and is derived from a nickname for someone with red hair.
- The native Irish name is derived from a patronymic form of the Gaelic personal name Eochaidh/Eachaidh, which means "horseman".
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Guild of One Name Studies
The Guild of One Name Studies shows the Goff-Gough Association as the registered study for this name with the variants Gough and Goffe. The association offers limited information for free and has extra details for members.
DNA Tested Profiles
Please add Goff Name Study profiles with a DNA Test to [[Category:DNA Tested, Goff Name Study]]
DNA Test Connections
WikiTree profiles with DNA Test Connections for GOFF can be found here
y-DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA
This is a link to the GOFF/GOUGH/McGOUGH y-DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA.
Project Members
- Chris Goff Goff's from the Barnes area of Surrey, England
- Shaun Goffe is particularly interested in the seventeenth century Goffes from the patriarch Reverend Stephen Goffe and his 8 sons. (He has a large database of information about their lives).
- Breauna McCallister says "My Mamaw (My mom's mom) is a Griffith/Goff child and her mother (my Granny) is a Goff. I want to learn all I can about the Goff family, so I can learn more about my family, and just to learn in general. I am also more than happy to help in any way I can. I have traced, so far, my Goff side to WV. Mostly in Raleigh County, WV. With a few spread out in different places in WV. I just traced back to George Washington Goff (born in VA) and his wife, Emily Jane Cook. "
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I think I successfully downloaded my DNA to this site. I don't know how to apply it to specific names. Any help there would be great.
I am still searching for any photos of Daniel that may be out there. In the 1850 census he and his wife were in Mason Co IL. He was in Nebraska at least by 1860 as the census records for Johnson Co. show he and his first wife Rebecca Hickey Goff. She died in 1870 and he created the Spring Hill Cemetery near Tecemseh around her grave with 3 acres of land deeded from his farm. Names associated with Daniel are his children John Burdette Goff and Myrtle Goff, his second wife Mary Rutter Switzer (Schweitzer) and some Ide relatives. His step-daughter Barnisa Hickey married Hudson Ayers and they show up in the 1860 Johnson Co Nebraska census. There could be family photos associated with any of these families with southeast Nebraska history. Daniel died in 1886. I have not been able to find Mary's grave.
edited by Laura (Feyhl) Steinmetz
Thank you for your interest. I'm afraid this is not my Goff family - they are from England - so I haven't researched them myself (other than to answer your post). The Wikitree profile you are referring to is Goff-1646 and the matching FamilySearch profile is 97MP-CQC - the later seems to be fairly well sourced. I would suggest that you repost your comment as a G2G question - add a Tag for the Goff name. I might also suggest you make contact with the Goff-Gough Association as I'm sure they will have some information on him. I hope this helps. Regards, Chris.
These sources are a great place to start; Mass. Middlesex Co Deed book 19 page 376 Thomas and Lydia Barnard of Andover…extensive text. 1718 MMCD 28-378 Jonathan Remington to widow Lydia Barnard relict of Rev Thomas Barnard July 18 1719. Middlesex Probate # 9281 Film 7553467 image 1035/1203 “Edmund Goffe Esq. brother of Lydia Barnard” 1740 MMCD 3-297 John Barnard acting as attorney for the estate of Thomas Flemming. 1662 Mass. Town Clerk Town Rec. 1626-2001 Middlesex County Rec. B.M.D. 1651-1793 image 55/652 Lydia b. 1664 dau of Samuel Goffe and Hannah (Barnard). The most important document was the Middlesex deed book 19 pg 376 which has important information not found elsewhere. I hope this helps someone.
I would like to join. My mother's grandmother was Viola Irene Goff and i am trying to learn as much as i can about my heritage
My mamaw( grandma) was a Goff/Griffith child, and her mother was a Goff.
My mamaw was Myrtle Ellen Griffith Thompson. Went by Ellen. Her mom, my granny, was Hattie Irene Goff.
Thank you! :)
I am more than happy to help in any way I can. :)
Short Note----- Hope it Sounds okay. Let me know if it doesn't.
I am interested in the Goff family because I am a Goff. My Mamaw (My mom's mom) is a Griffith/Goff child and her mother (my Granny) is a Goff. I want to learn all I can about the Goff family, so I can learn more about my family, and just to learn in general. I am also more than happy to help in any way I can. I have traced, so far, my Goff side to WV. Mostly in Raleigh County, WV. With a few spread out in different places in WV. I just traced back to George Washington Goff (born in VA) and his wife, Emily Jane Cook.
Just posted a question about parents of Anne Goff (Goff-426). Is it wrong to suggest that certain Bristol Cty, Mass. Goff profiles (Robert/Richard) might be candidates for mergers? Thanks. D. Jenkins