The sandford Surname
sandford Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Oxfordshire, and Shropshire, so called from Old English sand ‘sand’ + ford ‘ford’.
- Scottish: habitational name from a place in Fife, formerly called Sandford (see 1), now known as St. Fort.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Ancestry of Richard Sandford, born Essex, England in 1533 | Floyd Sandford | 31 |
| Sandfords from the Netherlands? |
 hdsandford
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| SANDFORD of India |
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| Mary Sandford |
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| Raymond Sandford & Strong Sandford, Kent, CT, 1798 |
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| Peter Sandford |
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| Irish Sandford's |
StephenSandford
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| Sandford - New York City |
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| SANDFORD/VAVASOUR connections | Anthony Paul Vavasour SANDFORD | 1 |
| ancestry | Pam Williams | 2 |
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