Michigan Family Group Sheet

Henry GODFREY Family

Counties: Hillsdale



Submitted by: R D Gordon
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HUSBAND WIFE
Husband: Henry GODFREY
Birth Date: 22 Sep 1845
Birth Place: Launton, Oxfordshire, England
Death date: 13 Feb 1920
Death Place: Jonesville, Hillsdale, MI
Burial Place: Sunset View Cemetery, Jonesville
Father: Thomas GODFREY
Mother: Alice EVANS
Wife: Mary Louisa BLACKWELL
Birth Date: 1843
Birth Place: England
Death date: 29 Aug 1865
Death Place: London, Middlesex, England
Burial Place:
Father: William BLACKWELL
Mother:
Marriage date: 12 Feb 1865 Marriage place: London, Middlesex, England

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Alice Mary GODFREY
Sex: F
Birth Date: 22 Aug 1865
Birth Place: London, Middlesex, England
Death date: Nov 1950
Death Place: Hillsdale, Hillsdale, MI
Burial Place: Sunset View Cemetery, Jonesville, Hillsdale, MI
Marriage date: 3 Dec 1891
Marriage place: Jonesville, Hillsdale, MI
Spouse's name: Frank HOAG


Documentation: Sources: British civil registration records (Henry's birth, marriage; daughter Alice's birth; wife Mary's death); Henry's death certificate; obituaries of Henry and Alice; gravestones. Other information: Henry was a tailor in London. After Mary's death he married Maria Bennett in 1867 and they had eight children born in London. In 1884 he left London and brought the children (but not Maria) to Jonesville, where he had a hardware store with his son Harry. Henry's father was a farmer in Moscow Township. The family is NOT related to the contemporary Wallace Godfrey family of Moscow.

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