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rutherford Name Meaning and History

Scottish and northern English: habitational name from a place in the Scottish Borders near Roxburgh, probably named with an early British river name of unknown etymology + Old English ford ‘ford’. There is another place of the same name in North Yorkshire, named with hryðer ‘cattle’ + Old English ford ‘ford’, but this does not seem to have contributed to the surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the rutherford family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of rutherford Families in the US in 1920
Number of rutherford families
 156-309
 53-155		 1-52
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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