Telford Family History
Telford Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Northumbria): not, as its form would imply, a
habitational name, even though there is a place in Shropshire so
called, but a variant of Telfer, assimilated to the pattern of
habitational names in -ford. The Shropshire place is a new
town, named after the celebrated Scottish civil engineer Thomas
Telford (1757–1834).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Telford
Name Distribution of Telford Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Telford families
 31 - 59  11 - 30 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Telford families
|
264 - 526 89 - 263 |
1 - 88 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Telford families
|
80 - 157 27 - 79 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Telford census records
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Telford Family Origin
Telford Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Telford
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Telford Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Telford census records
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Telford Civil War Service Records
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