When Seymour John Godfrey was born on 14 September 1919, in Union, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Horace Truman Godfrey, was 35 and his mother, Lucy Bringhurst, was 31. He married Mary Edith Van Valkenburg on 17 September 1943, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He immigrated to San Francisco, California, United States in 1941 and lived in World for about 10 years and Idaho, United States in 2011. He died on 14 October 1998, in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Gem Memorial Gardens, Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States.
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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.
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