Linford Family History
Linford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Great and Little Linford in
Buckinghamshire or Lynford in Norfolk. The former may have Old English
hlyn ‘maple’ as its first element; the latter is more likely to
contain lin ‘flax’. The second element in each case is Old
English ford ‘ford’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Linford
Name Distribution of Linford Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Linford families
 92 - 181  31 - 91 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Linford families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Linford census records
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Linford Family Origin
Linford Emigration Information (US)
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Linford Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Linford census records
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Military Service by Linford
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