The elford Surname
elford Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from a place so named, from the Old
English personal name Ella (see Ellington) + ford
‘ford’, or from Old English alor, elre ‘alder tree’ +
ford. There is a place of this name in Staffordshire and
another in Northumbria, but the surname now occurs chiefly in
Devon.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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