Frank Ernest J GODFREY

Male1887–4 April 1962

Brief Life History of Frank Ernest J

When Frank Ernest J GODFREY was born in 1887, in Berrima, New South Wales, Australia, his father, John George GODFREY, was 28 and his mother, Frances Henrietta Page, was 25. He married Henrietta Cornwell in 1905, in Burwood, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 4 April 1962, in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 75.

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Frank Ernest J GODFREY
1887–1962
Henrietta Cornwell
1887–1966
Marriage: 1905
William Ernest GODFREY
1905–1955

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  • Marriage
    1905Burwood, New South Wales, Australia
  • Children (1)

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    Siblings (3)

    World Events (8)

    1892

    Age 5

    Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.

    1901

    Age 14

    First Federal election.

    1911

    Age 24

    Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.

    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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