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trafford Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places so called. One in Northamptonshire is named with Old English træppe ‘(fish-)trap’ + ford ‘ford’. The places called Trafford in Cheshire have as their first element Old English trog ‘trough’, ‘valley’; while Trafford in Lancashire was originally called Stratford ‘ford on a Roman road’ (see Stratford). Nevertheless, most cases of the surname probably derive from the last of these places; a landowning family can be traced there to the 13th century.

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Distribution of trafford Families in the US in 1920
Number of trafford families
 13-23
 5-12		 1-4
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Trafford Families in Arkansas ConnieUnknown73 0
Info on Sutton Trafford born in Ill. 1814 resided in Ky. mcwhort49143 0
Searching for info on Clarence Kenneth Trafford, Sr. Laura Trafford 4
TRAFFORDs of Oxfordshire Keith Milne 2
susannah trafford kazlou2003 1
Looking for any relatives Larri Trafford 88
Trafford's of Massachusetts 1690-1917 Christopher_McKeon 0
Trafford's of Leek Brett Trafford 4
Traffords from England to Florida David Trafford 3
TRAFFORD-2 PA newspaper article(s) Max57TBird 0
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