Galford Family History
- Galford Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place in Devon so named, from Old English gafol ‘tax’, ‘toll’ + ford ‘ford’. The surname is now not found in England. Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Galfert, from a Germanic personal name based on Old High German galan ‘to sing’, or of Gelfort, Gelfert, or Gelfart(h), from a Germanic personal name composed with Middle High German gelfen ‘to cry’, ‘to boast’ or gelf ‘scorn’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 18,794 Historical Documents with Galford on Ancestry
- 5,085 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,562 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,014 Military Records
- 100 Immigration Records
- 10,033 Member Trees
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Number of Galford families
 26 - 50  9 - 25 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Galford census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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