Walford Family History
Walford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Walford. Examples in Herefordshire and Shropshire are named with Old
English (West Midlands) wæll(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’ +
ford ‘ford’. A second place of the same name in Herefordshire
was named with Old English w(e)alh ‘foreigner’, ‘Briton’,
‘serf’ (see Wallace) as the first element, and one in Dorset
with Old English wealt ‘unsteady’, ‘difficult’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Walford
Name Distribution of Walford Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Walford families
 179 - 356  60 - 178 |
 1 - 59  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Walford families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Walford census records
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Walford Family Origin
Walford Emigration Information (US)
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Walford Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Walford
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