When Guernsey Goff was born on 13 November 1766, in Chatham Township, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Comfort Goff, was 32 and his mother, Susannah Garnsey, was 29. He married Asenath Brainard on 3 December 1789. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. He died on 6 August 1835, in Rush, Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Pioneer Hill Cemetery, Rush, Monroe, New York, United States.
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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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