The bedford Surname
bedford Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from the county seat of Bedfordshire, or
a smaller place of the same name in Lancashire. Both are named with
the Old English personal name Beda + Old English ford
‘ford’. The name is now very common in Yorkshire as well as
Bedfordshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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