Brief Life History of Ethel Ione
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.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Ethel Goff in household of Edward H Goff, "United States Census, 1900"
Parents and Siblings
1854–1893 Male
1863–1948 Female
Siblings (5)
1884–1963 Female
1885–1945 Male
1888–1892 Female
1890–1892 Male
1891–1981 Female
World Events (8)
1885 · The First Skyscraper
Age 1
1886
Age 2
1906 · Saving Food Labels
Age 22
Name Meaning
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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