Stanford Family History
Stanford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places named
Stanford, for example in Bedfordshire, Kent, and Norfolk, or Stanford
Dingley in Berkshire, Stanford in the Vale in Oxfordshire, or Stanford
le Hope in Essex, etc., all named from Old English stan
‘stone’ + ford ‘ford’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Stanford Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Stanford families
 257 - 511  86 - 256 |
 1 - 85  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Stanford families
|
9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Stanford Family Origin
Stanford Emigration Information (US)
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Stanford Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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