Bedford Family History
- Bedford Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from the county seat of Bedfordshire, or a smaller place of the same name in Lancashire. Both are named with the Old English personal name Beda + Old English ford ‘ford’. The name is now very common in Yorkshire as well as Bedfordshire.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,086,607 Historical Documents with Bedford on Ancestry
- 330,866 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 251,619 Census and Voter Lists
- 25,784 Military Records
- 18,144 Immigration Records
- 460,194 Member Trees
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Number of Bedford families
 1,285 - 2,568  429 - 1,284 |
 1 - 428  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bedford families
|
13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bedford census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Bedford census records
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