Ford Family History
Ford Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a ford,
Middle English, Old English ford, or a habitational name from
one of the many places named with this word, such as Ford in
Northumberland, Shropshire, and West Sussex, or Forde in Dorset.Irish: Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic
names, for example Mac Giolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na
Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac
Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name
composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to
swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be
áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see
Foran).Jewish: Americanized form of one or more
like-sounding Jewish surnames.Translation of German
Fürth (see Furth).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Ford
Name Distribution of Ford Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ford families
 2,322 - 4,641  775 - 2,321 |
 1 - 774  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ford families
|
252 - 501 85 - 251 |
1 - 84 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ford census records
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Ford Family Origin
Ford Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Ford Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Ford Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Ford census records
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