Goff Family History
- Goff Name Meaning
- Welsh: nickname for a red-haired person (see Gough). 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. Irish: reduced form of McGoff.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,393,874 Historical Documents with Goff on Ancestry
- 325,874 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 191,138 Census and Voter Lists
- 38,251 Military Records
- 15,987 Immigration Records
- 822,624 Member Trees
Number of Goff families
 243 - 484  82 - 242 |
 1 - 81  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Goff families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Goff census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Goff census records
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