Welford Family History
Welford Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places named Welford, of
which there are instances in Berkshire, Gloucestershire,
Northamptonshire, and elsewhere. The first is named from Old English
welig ‘willow’ + ford ‘ford’; the latter two seem to
have the first element well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Welford Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Welford families
 140 - 277  47 - 139 |
 1 - 46  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Welford census records
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Welford Family Origin
Welford Emigration Information (US)
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Welford Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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