When Amanda Margaret Goff was born in 1832, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Isaac Shelby Goff, was 34 and her mother, Sarah Rebecca Denson, was 27. She married George Rhodes Benson on 21 April 1849, in Hinds, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Jackson, Mississippi, United States in 1860. She died in 1854, in Hinds, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 22.
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English: if originally pronounced with a soft G-, this is from the Middle English personal name Goff(e), Joff(e), a short form of Geoffrey (see Jeffrey ).
English (of Cornish and Breton origin): occupational name from Cornish and Breton goff ‘smith’ (cognate with Gaelic gobha). The surname is common in East Anglia, where it is of Breton origin, introduced by followers of William the Conqueror.
Welsh and Cornish: nickname from a variant of Welsh or Cornish coch, goch ‘red(-haired)’; see Gough .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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