Stafford Family History
Stafford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the various places in
England so called, which do not all share the same etymology. The
county seat of Staffordshire (which is probably the main source of the
surname) is named from Old English stæð ‘landing place’ +
ford ‘ford’. Examples in Devon seem to have as their first
element Old English stan ‘stone’, and one in Sussex is
probably named with Old English steor ‘steer’, ‘bullock’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Stafford
Name Distribution of Stafford Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Stafford families
 297 - 592  100 - 296 |
 1 - 99  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Stafford families
|
609 - 1,216 204 - 608 |
1 - 203 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Stafford families
|
54 - 106 19 - 53 |
1 - 18 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Stafford census records
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Stafford Family Origin
Stafford Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Stafford
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Stafford Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Stafford census records
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Stafford Civil War Service Records
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