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elford Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place so named, from the Old English personal name Ella (see Ellington) + ford ‘ford’, or from Old English alor, elre ‘alder tree’ + ford. There is a place of this name in Staffordshire and another in Northumbria, but the surname now occurs chiefly in Devon.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of elford Families in the US in 1920
Number of elford families
 10-18
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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