Mary Frances Goff

Brief Life History of Mary Frances

When Mary Frances Goff was born on 17 August 1853, in Warren, Kentucky, United States, her father, Isaac Jackson Goff, was 22 and her mother, Mary Jane Alford, was 19. She married John Allison Whitehead on 2 April 1873, in Butler, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Magisterial District 2 Tracy, Barren, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Butler, Kentucky, United States in 1880.

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Family Time Line

John Allison Whitehead
1852–
Mary Frances Goff
1853–
Marriage: 2 April 1873
Florence Bell Whitehead
1891–1963

Sources (15)

  • Mary Goff, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Mary F. Goff, "Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960"
  • Mary F Goff, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"

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World Events (8)

1861

Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

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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