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medford Name Meaning and History

Apparently an English habitational name from an unidentified place. Possibly it originated in North America, from Medford, MA, which is named as ‘the ford by the meadow’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of medford Families in the US in 1920
Number of medford families
 45-87
 16-44		 1-15
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 82 - Messages: 163
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Richard Elbert Medford 1861 / 1950 judy_rodgers 1
Medford Hall - Meaford Hall JAYMEDINC 0
MEDFORD / MITFORD FMitford 2
Nicholas Medford - NC Robyn Putnam 7
Medford Y-DNA Project ECUmedford 0
Clinton C. Medford - Texas PSimm 0
MEDFORD Wade Hampton and Elizabeth REDDELL .JPG t42AledoBrown_ParCoTX 0
MEDFORD Alice A .JPG t42AledoBrown_ParCoTX 0
MEDFORD Duane W Jr Duke .JPG t42AledoBrown_ParCoTX 0
MEDFORD Jane Augusta and Duane W .JPG t42AledoBrown_ParCoTX 0
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