Byford Family History
Byford Name Meaning
habitational name from a place named Byford, from Old
English byge ‘bend’ + ford ‘ford’. There is one such on
the Wye near Hereford.topographic name for someone who lived by a
ford, from Middle English by ‘by’, ‘beside’ + ford.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Byford Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Byford families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Byford families
|
270 - 537 91 - 269 |
1 - 90 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Byford Family Origin
Byford Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Byford
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Byford Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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