When Anabel Godfrey was born on 29 December 1863, in Tuckahoe, Upper Township, Cape May, New Jersey, United States, her father, Thompson Godfrey, was 25 and her mother, Harriet M. Ireland, was 26. She married Coleman Norton on 2 April 1883, in Petersburg, Upper Precinct, Cape May, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Cape May, New Jersey, United States in 1905 and Middle Township, Cape May, New Jersey, United States in 1915. She died on 4 March 1951, in Ventnor City, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in First Baptist Cemetery, Middletown, Cape May, New Jersey, United States.
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Thomas Edison had been seeking to create a more practical and affordable version of the lightbulb, primarily for home use. Edison had attempted several different materials, including platinum and other metals, before ultimately deciding on a carbon filament. On October 21, 1879, Edison finally carried out the first successful test of this new light bulb in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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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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