Goff (disambiguation)

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Goff is a surname. See the article for a list of people with the surname. Goff or Goffs may also refer to:

Goff is a surname with several distinct origins, mainly Germanic, Celtic, Jewish, and French. It is the 946th most common family name in the United States. When the surname originates from England it is derived from an occupational name from German, Cornish and Breton. The German Goff means a godly person, a strong warrior, or a priest. The Breton goff means "smith". The English-originating surname is common in East Anglia, where it is of Breton origin. The Welsh name is a variant of the surname Gough, and is derived from a nickname for someone with red hair. The native Irish name is derived from a patronymic form of the Gaelic personal name Eochaidh/Eachaidh, which means "horseman".

Places
Goff, Kansas City in Kansas, United States

Goff is a city in Nemaha County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 126.

Goff Farm

Goff Farm is a historic farmhouse at 157 Perryville Road in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built c.1800, with Federal styling, as a single-story residence. It was extensively remodeled in 1897, adding the second floor and Italianate features. The house retains significant interior details, including polished brass hardware and varnished wood paneling. Members of the Goff family were prominent in local politics, and their farmland was in active use until its acquisition for the Rehoboth Country Club.

Goff Homestead building in Massachusetts, United States

The Goff Homestead is a historic colonial American house at 40 Maple Lane in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. This 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built c. 1750-80, and is an extremely rare local example of a Georgian period house with end chimneys. The chimney design is particularly idiosyncratic, and is found in Massachusetts in only one other house, also located in Rehoboth. The house was in the hands of the locally prominent Goff family from 1784 to c. 1920.

First name

Godfrey Alan Letts, known as Goff Letts, was the Majority Leader of the Northern Territory of Australia from 1974 to 1977.

Goff Richards, sometimes credited as Godfrey Richards, was a prominent Cornish brass band arranger and composer. He was born in Cornwall, studying at the Royal College of Music and Reading University. Between 1976 and 1989, he lectured in arranging and at Salford College of Technology. He was the musical director of the Chetham's Big Band for many years. In 1976, he was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd. He received a Doctorate from Salford University in 1990, after a career that had seen him lead the University Jazz Orchestra to the BBC Big Band of the Year title in 1989.

See also

Goffe is a surname, and may refer to:

Gough is a surname.

Goffs Caye island in Belize

Goff's Caye is a small island off the shore of Belize City, Belize. It sits right on the edge of the Belize Barrier Reef with waters to the south and east being only 0.6 to 3 metres deep. Goff's Caye is registered as an archaeological site due to its Colonial era settlement. During the Colonial times, the island served as a fishing camp, trade center and cemetery. Among those interred in the cemetery are a number of crew members from HMS Blossom, who died of Yellow Fever during a visit to the colony in August 1830.

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