The walford Surname
walford Name Meaning and History
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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