Godfrey was the son of John Godfrey, Esquire and Barbara, the daughter of Reverend Hathway. He was a great-grandson of Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby and his family owned a sizeable estate in County Kerry.
Godfrey married Agnes, the only daughter of William Blennerhassett, on 15 August 1761. Together they had nine children. He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, John.[6]
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^Henry Colburn, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (1839), 449.
^John Debrett, The baronetage of England, revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen (1840), 616
^William Betham, The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families; with Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Coats of Arms, Volume 5 (Burrell and Bransby, 1805), 55.
^Henry Colburn, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (1839), 449.
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