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sandford Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Oxfordshire, and Shropshire, so called from Old English sand ‘sand’ + ford ‘ford’.
  2. Scottish: habitational name from a place in Fife, formerly called Sandford (see 1), now known as St. Fort.

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sandford Family Facts

Distribution of sandford Families in the US in 1920
Number of sandford families
 51-100
 18-50		 1-17
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Mary Sandford tremaineo 0
Raymond Sandford & Strong Sandford, Kent, CT, 1798 JudiWatson199 0
Peter Sandford emtroy2 4
Irish Sandford's StephenSandford 2
Sandford - New York City walsmanfamily 1
SANDFORD/VAVASOUR connections Anthony Paul Vavasour SANDFORD 1
Sandfords from the Netherlands? hdsandford 9
ancestry Pam Williams 2
Butch Burr Sandford/Minnesota darlenepoppe1979 0
John P. SANDFORD, 1821-1881, NJ>NY Roadsurfer 1
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