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The whiteford Surname

whiteford Name Meaning and History

Scottish: habitational name from Whiteford near Paisley, outside Glasgow, named with hwit ‘white’ + ford ‘ford’, or from some other place similarly named.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Distribution of whiteford Families in the US in 1920

Number of whiteford families

32-62

11-31

1-10

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Whiteford, Alfred	MRSCLUTTER44	10
whiteford	rosinabriffa	1
Whiteford, Elenora E. (OBIT PA 3-18-2008)	obituary33b	0
Charles H. A. Whiteford of Penn.	hitchheick	0
Whiteford	juliemoss9	0
whiteford	juliemoss9	1
WHITEFORD	juliemoss9	0
help needed	charleston52	5
David Whiteford - Ayr Scotland to Barkerville BC	tarah99	0
John E. and Hanby Smith (REID) Whiteford	3cansisters	0

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