Stafford Family History
Stafford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the various places in
England so called, which do not all share the same etymology. The
county seat of Staffordshire (which is probably the main source of the
surname) is named from Old English stæð ‘landing place’ +
ford ‘ford’. Examples in Devon seem to have as their first
element Old English stan ‘stone’, and one in Sussex is
probably named with Old English steor ‘steer’, ‘bullock’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Stafford
Name Distribution of Stafford Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Stafford families
 609 - 1,216  204 - 608 |
 1 - 203  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Stafford families
|
54 - 106 19 - 53 |
1 - 18 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Stafford census records
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Stafford Family Origin
Stafford Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Stafford Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Stafford families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Stafford Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Stafford census records
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Military Service by Stafford
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