Rayford Family History
- Rayford Name Meaning
- English (also Wrayford): topographic name for someone who lived by a ford on the Wray river. Probably an Americanized spelling of German Reifarth, Raifarth, or Reifert, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements ric ‘power(ful)’ + frid- ‘peace’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 37,030 Historical Documents with Rayford on Ancestry
- 16,612 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,608 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,236 Military Records
- 255 Immigration Records
- 9,319 Member Trees
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Number of Rayford families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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