The "Penobscot Loyalists" emigrated from Castine, Maine.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Goff (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Some settled in the British West Indies, and in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Virginia in the 1600s. In the 1700s, some settled in Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina,...

John Andrews or Andrus (d.1681) and his wife, Mary, and their family emigrated from England to Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut during or before 1658. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Iowa and elsewhere.

The earliest record of an identifiable ancestor of this family is found at Cockerham in 1598 of John, son of Henry Threlfall of Pilling. Cockerham is next to Pilling which is about thirteen miles from Goosnargh, Lancashire, England. John Brooks Threlfall (b. 1920), son of John Newton Threlfall and Margaret Brooks both of Massachusetts, was born in Massachusetts. He married 1949 at Madison, Wisc., Eila Maarit Hyyryläinen of Kajaani, Finland. She is...