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bickford Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place named Bickford, from the Old English personal name Bicca + Old English ford ‘ford’. There is one such place in Staffordshire, but the surname is more common in Devon, where it is derived from Bickford Town in Plympton St. Mary parish.

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Distribution of bickford Families in the US in 1920
Number of bickford families
 139-275
 47-138		 1-46
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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