Bradford Family History
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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
Similar surnames: Radford, Branford, Trafford, Crawford, Blandford, Cranford, Bamford