Guessford Family History
Guessford Name Meaning
Possibly an altered form of English Gosford a habitational name from any of the places so named in Oxfordshire Somerset Suffolk and Warwickshire or from Gosforth in Cumbria. All are named from Old English gōs ‘goose’ (genitive plural gósa ‘of the geese’) + ford ‘ford’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022