Brief Life History of Eunice
When Eunice Godfrey was born on 24 February 1731, in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Moses Godfrey, was 29 and her mother, Martha Collins, was 24. She married Josiah Godfrey on 7 July 1748, in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died after 1790, in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Eunice Godfrey, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Eunis Godfrey, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Legacy NFS Source: Eunice Godfrey - birth: 24 February 1732; Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
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Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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