When Ethel Ione Goff was born on 13 January 1884, in Mount Pulaski, Logan, Illinois, United States, her father, Charles C. Goff, was 30 and her mother, Ida Agnes Wilson, was 20. She lived in Independence Township, Nodaway, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 24 April 1963, at the age of 79.
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 .
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