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Bradford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places, large and
small, called Bradford; in particular the city in West Yorkshire,
which originally rose to prosperity as a wool town. There are others
in Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Somerset,
and elsewhere. They are all named with Old English brad
‘broad’ + ford ‘ford’.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bradford
Name Distribution of Bradford Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bradford families
 268 - 533  90 - 267 |
 1 - 89  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bradford families
|
572 - 1,141 191 - 571 |
1 - 190 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bradford families
|
52 - 101 18 - 51 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bradford census records
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Bradford Family Origin
Bradford Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Bradford
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Bradford Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bradford census records
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Bradford Civil War Service Records
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