The telford Surname
telford Name Meaning and History
Scottish and English (Northumbria): not, as its form would imply, a
habitational name, even though there is a place in Shropshire so
called, but a variant of Telfer, assimilated to the pattern of
habitational names in -ford. The Shropshire place is a new
town, named after the celebrated Scottish civil engineer Thomas
Telford (1757–1834).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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