This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gabbard, Isaacs Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5AB.2ACE/1459.1460.1457.1466.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: The given name Godfrey comes from the Isaacs family. The name is in several generations of this family. Your Godfrey was probably named for one of them. Joyce