Elford Family History
Elford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place so named, from the Old
English personal name Ella (see Ellington) + ford
‘ford’, or from Old English alor, elre ‘alder tree’ +
ford. There is a place of this name in Staffordshire and
another in Northumbria, but the surname now occurs chiefly in
Devon.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Elford Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Elford families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Elford families
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92 - 182 31 - 91 |
1 - 30 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Elford families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Elford Family Origin
Elford Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Elford
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Elford Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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