When Agnes "Nancy" Godfrey was born in 1784, in Montgomery, Virginia, United States, her father, Thomas Godfrey, was 36 and her mother, Susannah Stephenson, was 34. She married Archibald Archer Bailey in 1800, in Gallia, Greenfield Township, Gallia, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Wyoming, Wyoming, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Wyoming, Virginia, United States in 1860. She died in June 1860, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia, United States.
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English (of Norman origin): from the Norman personal name Godefrei, Godefroi(s), composed of the ancient Germanic elements god, got ‘god’ + frid(u), fred ‘peace’. See also Jeffrey .
Irish: shortened and Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gothraidh or Ó Gothraidh, ‘descendant of Gothfrith’, an Old Norse personal name often Anglicized as Godfrey. Compare McGorry , McCaffrey .
History: An Irish family of the name Godfrey originated in Romney, Kent. The first of them to settle in Ireland was Colonel John Godfrey, who was rewarded with lands in Kerry for his services in the 1641 rebellion. Godefroy, Lord of Normanville, from Normandy, was married in Trois-Rivières, QC, in 1636. He was captured by the Iroquois in 1652. His brother, Lord of Linctot, from Rouen, was also married in 1636 in Trois-Rivières, and lived from 1629 to 1632 among the Hurons. Another Godefroy, from Paris, was a trader and interpreter from 1623.
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