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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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The bedford name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the bedford family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of bedford Families in the US in 1920
Number of bedford families
 68-133
 23-67		 1-22
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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