Elford Family History
- Elford Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place so named, from the Old English personal name Ella (see Ellington) + ford ‘ford’, or from Old English alor, elre ‘alder tree’ + ford. There is a place of this name in Staffordshire and another in Northumbria, but the surname now occurs chiefly in Devon.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 152,913 Historical Documents with Elford on Ancestry
- 36,046 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 28,329 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,966 Military Records
- 10,448 Immigration Records
- 76,124 Member Trees
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Number of Elford families
 92 - 182  31 - 91 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Elford families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Elford census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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