Bradford Family History
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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bradford
Name Distribution of Bradford Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bradford families
 572 - 1,141  191 - 571 |
 1 - 190  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bradford families
|
52 - 101 18 - 51 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bradford census records
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Bradford Family Origin
Bradford Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Bradford families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bradford Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Bradford families immigrated
to Australia.
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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
Bradford Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bradford census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Bradford ancestors, such as occupation.
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Military Service by Bradford
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