Colford Family History
- Colford Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from either of two places called Coleford, in Somerset and Gloucestershire, which are named with Old English col ‘(char)coal’ + ford ‘ford’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 20,143 Historical Documents with Colford on Ancestry
- 5,803 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,067 Census and Voter Lists
- 675 Military Records
- 1,119 Immigration Records
- 7,479 Member Trees
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Number of Colford families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Colford families
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12 - 21 5 - 11 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Colford census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Colford census records
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