Milford Family History
- Milford Name Meaning
- English (Devon): habitational name from any of numerous places, for example in Derbyshire, Devon, Hampshire, Norfolk, Staffordshire, and Surrey, named in Old English as ‘mill ford’, from mylen ‘mill’ (see Mill) + ford ‘ford’. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolfhoghmhair ‘descendant of Maolgfhoghmhair’, a personal name meaning ‘chief of harvest’. The Gaelic name was first Anglicized as Mullover, which was later assimilated to Milford.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 191,860 Historical Documents with Milford on Ancestry
- 53,447 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 31,846 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,114 Military Records
- 3,661 Immigration Records
- 93,792 Member Trees
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Number of Milford families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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164 - 325 55 - 163 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- All Milford
- 115
- Confederate
- 57
- Union
- 58
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