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John is a Hebrew name which means:
"Jehovah has been gracious, has shown favor"
Coffey is an anglicised version of the Irish name meaning: "The victorious"
The Coffey family motto (translated to Latin in the 1600s) is of a traditional pre-christian Irish reference to the family by its contemporaries:
"Non providentia sed Victoria" which in English has an ambiguous meaning - "No victory but foresight"
The family numbers greatly diminished in the occupational period between the 17th and 18th centuries under British rule. There was a Coffey family member in many of the rebellions of Ireland. Eventually culminating to Irish independence in the 20th Century.