Hi Chris,  I read your post with great interest.  I've been looking for descendants of the Northamptonshire Goff Family.  The newsletter for the Goff - Gough Family Association has this year included a series of articles on the distribution of the Goff surname.  The study has used the 1841 census and 17th century hearth tax returns as a basis for distribution maps.  From this work I know that Northamptonshire was a place of concentration for the family.   I would love to get more cousins from the UK into the Goff - Gough Family Association.  Thanks,  Phil Goff Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Chris Woods via <goff@rootsweb.com> </div><div>Date:09/08/2014 12:51 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: goff@rootsweb.com </div><div>Subject: [GOFF] Thomas Goff </div><div> </div>Hi Folks, nice to see some English Goffs - my earliest is a Thomas Goff who was a farmer living in Bozeat, Northamptonshire. His farm house was burnt down in ‘The Great Fire of Bozeat’ in 1729 which also destroyed most of the church parish records I don’t know his ancestry but he married Mary Lavender (?) in Bozeat 6th. Jan 1728?29, and was buried in Bozeat 1765 The family remained in the Bozeat area of Northamptonshire, close to the Bedfordshire where relations lived and farmed in Harrold Mary Jane Goff b. 7/11/1862 in Northampton was my Brighton (Sussex) based grandmother. She was married in the College Street Baptist Church, Northampton, and died in Hove 1947. Any takers, Chris ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOFF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message