Bedford Family History
Bedford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the county seat of Bedfordshire, or
a smaller place of the same name in Lancashire. Both are named with
the Old English personal name Beda + Old English ford
‘ford’. The name is now very common in Yorkshire as well as
Bedfordshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bedford
Name Distribution of Bedford Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bedford families
 1,285 - 2,568  429 - 1,284 |
 1 - 428  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bedford families
|
13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bedford census records
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Bedford Family Origin
Bedford Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Bedford families immigrated
to the United States.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bedford Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Bedford families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Bedford Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bedford census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Bedford ancestors, such as occupation.
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Military Service by Bedford
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