Walford Family History
Walford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Walford. Examples in Herefordshire and Shropshire are named with Old
English (West Midlands) wæll(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’ +
ford ‘ford’. A second place of the same name in Herefordshire
was named with Old English w(e)alh ‘foreigner’, ‘Briton’,
‘serf’ (see Wallace) as the first element, and one in Dorset
with Old English wealt ‘unsteady’, ‘difficult’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Walford
Name Distribution of Walford Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Walford families
 19 - 36  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Walford families
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179 - 356 60 - 178 |
1 - 59 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Walford families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Walford Family Origin
Walford Immigration Information
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Walford Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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