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telford Name Meaning and History

Scottish and English (Northumbria): not, as its form would imply, a habitational name, even though there is a place in Shropshire so called, but a variant of Telfer, assimilated to the pattern of habitational names in -ford. The Shropshire place is a new town, named after the celebrated Scottish civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757–1834).

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Distribution of telford Families in the US in 1920
Number of telford families
 31-59
 11-30		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Maxwell Telford BETTY TELFORD 1
William P. Telford/Elizabeth Murray in Ontario skvesta 8
Esther Jane Telford sherrioliver1 0
john telford and ann bradford married 1849 in bridgton glasgow ronaldtelford94 0
Telford family tree winklesmom 0
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Telford - Monkland Lanarkshire Scotland nicoleh13 0
Telford Info. BettyTelford264 6
Ireland/Scotland missing link aeldridge21 1
Telford Genealaogy BobTelford 13
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