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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 1840
Number of bickford families
 60-117
 21-59
 1-20
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