| HUSBAND | WIFE |
| Husband: Henry GODFREY (2) 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: Maria Ann BENNETT Birth Date: 17 Dec 1841 Birth Place: London, Middlesex, England Death date: 21 July 1914 Death Place: Islington, Middlesex, England Burial Place: Father: Edward BENNETT Mother: Elizabeth BENNETT |
| Marriage date: 25 Dec 1867 | Marriage place: London, Middlesex, England |
| Child No. 1: Henry Alfred (Harry) GODFREY Sex: M Birth Date: 12 Dec 1868 Birth Place: London, Middlesex, England Death date: 25 Apr 1941 Death Place: Jonesville, Hillsdale, MI Burial Place: Sunset View Cemetery, Jonesville Marriage date: 15 Oct 1890 Marriage place: Allen, Hillsdale, MI Spouse's name: Harriet (Hattie) STONE |
Child No. 2: Minnie GODFREY Sex: F Birth Date: 28 July 1870 Birth Place: London, Middlesex, England Death date: living 1884 Death Place: Burial Place: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: |
| Child No. 3: Flora GODFREY Sex: F Birth Date: 17 July 1872 Birth Place: London, Middlesex, England Death date: 20 Dec 1958 Death Place: Menlo Park, San Mateo, CA Burial Place: Sunset View Cemetery, Jonesville Marriage date: 18 May 1893 Marriage place: Jonesville, Hillsdale, MI Spouse's name: Walter George PROPER |
Child No. 4: Ernest GODFREY Sex: M Birth Date: 26 Dec 1873 Birth Place: London, Middlesex, England Death date: 5 June 1939 Death Place: Jonesville, Hillsdale, MI Burial Place: Sunset View Cemetery, Jonesville Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: did not marry |
| Child No. 5: Kate GODFREY Sex: F Birth Date: 3 Apr 1875 Birth Place: London, Middlesex, England Death date: 20 Dec 1911 Death Place: Iron Mountain, Dickinson, MI Burial Place: Sunset View Cemetery, Jonesville Marriage date: 12 Dec 1906 Marriage place: Jonesville, Hillsdale, MI Spouse's name: William Cosgrove GORDON |
Child No. 6: George Hamilton GODFREY Sex: M Birth Date: 19 June 1876 Birth Place: London, Middlesex, England Death date: 24 Oct 1927 Death Place: Jonesville, Hillsdale, MI Burial Place: Marriage date: 4 May 1899 Marriage place: Jonesville, Hillsdale, MI Spouse's name: Margaret BRYAN |
| Child No. 7: Frederick Charles GODFREY Sex: M Birth Date: 31 Jan 1880 Birth Place: London, Middlesex, England Death date: 1941 Death Place: Burial Place: Sunset View Cemetery, Jonesville Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: did not marry |
Child No. 8: Edith Amy GODFREY Sex: F Birth Date: 17 April 1881 Birth Place: London, Middlesex, England Death date: Aug 1975 Death Place: Des Moines, Polk, IA Burial Place: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: did not marry |
| Documentation: Sources: British civil registrations (Henry's birth, marriage; Maria's birth, death; births of children Minnie, Flora, Ernest, George, Frederick, Edith); Michigan death certificates (Henry, daughter Kate); gravestones; passenger manifests of the 'Eider' (1884), 'New York' (1893); 1871 & 1881 London censuses; 1894 Michigan census; 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 US censuses. Other information: Henry had a tailor shop at 181 Hackney Rd, London; the family lived above it. In 1884 Henry brought the children to Jonesville; wife Maria and daughter Edith stayed in London. Henry brought Edith to Jonesville in 1893. Son Harry was a partner with his father in H Godfrey & Son, a hardware store in Jonesville. Flora was divorced from Walter Proper; he died in 1918, and in 1919 she married her widowed brother-in-law William Gordon in Marguette. Kate went to Michigan Normal College in Ypsilanti and was a school teacher. After George's wife Margaret died in 1911, he married Nellie Griffith. Frederick was a dentist in Quincy. |
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