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safford Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Seaford in East Sussex, named with Old English s? ‘sea’ + ford ‘ford’. Until the 16th century, the Ouse river flowed into the sea at this point.

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The safford name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the safford family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of safford Families in the US in 1920
Number of safford families
 78-154
 27-77		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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