Bedford Family History
Bedford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the county seat of Bedfordshire, or
a smaller place of the same name in Lancashire. Both are named with
the Old English personal name Beda + Old English ford
‘ford’. The name is now very common in Yorkshire as well as
Bedfordshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bedford
Name Distribution of Bedford Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bedford families
 68 - 133  23 - 67 |
 1 - 22  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bedford families
|
1,285 - 2,568 429 - 1,284 |
1 - 428 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bedford families
|
13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bedford census records
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Bedford Family Origin
Bedford Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Bedford
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Bedford Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bedford census records
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Bedford Civil War Service Records
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