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Goff /Goffe/Gough One Name Study

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Date: 14 Mar 2017
Surnames/tags: Goff Gough Goffe
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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. "

WikiTree Resources

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Cunningham-17487 Cheree Cunningham
HI,

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

posted by Cheree Cunningham
Goff-495 Chris Goff
Hi Cheree. Thanks for your interest, I've added your two Goff profiles to the study and added some basic details. I would be grateful, and it would help others, if you could add the relevant location details to your profiles, especially as the Categories for our name study are based on this. BTW you don't need to be a "member" of the Study to add profiles to it but If you are happy to help other people with the study then let me know and I'll add your details to the project page. If you give me a short note about your Goff interest I'll add that too.
posted by Chris Goff
Wayne Robinson
Hi My Grandma was Elsie margeret maguire who married a goff I will try to find out more about the goff connection but believe he was call Albert
posted by Wayne Robinson
McCallister-781 Breauna McCallister
Hello, I would like to join. I have so much questions about the Goff side and would love to learn more. I would also love to help with what little I know as well.

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! :)

posted by Breauna McCallister
Goff-495 Chris Goff
Hi Breauna. Thanks for your interest, I've added your Goff family to the study - I may have missed a couple, if I have, let me know. If you are happy to help other people with the study then let me know and I'll add your details to the project page. If you give me a short note about your Goff interest I'll add that too.
posted by Chris Goff
McCallister-781 Breauna McCallister
Thank you for adding me! I appreciate it.

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.

posted by Breauna McCallister
Goff-495 Chris Goff
Breauna, this has now been done.
posted by Chris Goff
Vincent-18 Bill Vincent Ph.D.
FYI: This is a link to the GOFF/GOUGH/McGOUGH y-DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA.
posted by Bill Vincent Ph.D.
Goff-495 Chris Goff
Thanks. I've aded the link to the page.
posted by Chris Goff
Michael Battey
One of my ggreat grandparents was Margaret Goff (Goff-3767), who was born in Choctaw Alabama and married George Washington Doggett. They then moved to Bradley Co. Arkansas. Margaret has been a dead end for me for a long time, and she is in my direct maternal line.
posted by Michael Battey
Carruth-363 Linda (Carruth) Peterson
This source has quite a few GOFF family members that lived in Connecticut on the 'Preview' with 2 pages - Stiles, Henry R. Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: Consisting of Volume Ii of the History of Ancient Wethersfield, Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington ; and of Glastonbury Prior to Its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time, with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Families. Westminster, Md: Heritage Books, Inc, 2007. Print. On Google Book. Pg. 367-368.
posted by Linda (Carruth) Peterson
Jenkins-761 Dave Jenkins
Hi Chris,

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

posted by Dave Jenkins

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