The trafford Surname
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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