Trafford Family History
Trafford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places so
called. One in Northamptonshire is named with Old English
træppe ‘(fish-)trap’ + ford ‘ford’. The places called
Trafford in Cheshire have as their first element Old English
trog ‘trough’, ‘valley’; while Trafford in Lancashire was
originally called Stratford ‘ford on a Roman road’ (see
Stratford). Nevertheless, most cases of the surname probably
derive from the last of these places; a landowning family can be
traced there to the 13th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Trafford
Name Distribution of Trafford Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Trafford families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Trafford families
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131 - 259 44 - 130 |
1 - 43 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Trafford families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Trafford Family Origin
Trafford Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Trafford
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Trafford Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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