Bradford Family History
- Bradford Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the many places, large and small, called Bradford; in particular the city in West Yorkshire, which originally rose to prosperity as a wool town. There are others in Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Somerset, and elsewhere. They are all named with Old English brad ‘broad’ + ford ‘ford’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,368,650 Historical Documents with Bradford on Ancestry
- 635,733 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 370,045 Census and Voter Lists
- 73,861 Military Records
- 28,587 Immigration Records
- 1,260,424 Member Trees
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Number of Bradford families
 268 - 533  90 - 267 |
 1 - 89  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bradford families
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572 - 1,141 191 - 571 |
1 - 190 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bradford families
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52 - 101 18 - 51 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bradford census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bradford census records
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- All Bradford
- 1,574
- Confederate
- 757
- Union
- 817
from the Civil War Service Records
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