Last name: BEDFORD
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BEDFORD : This last name is indexed 106,219 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BEDFORD : English: habitational name from the county seat of Bedfordshire or a smaller place of the same name in Lancashire or from Bedforth in Thornhill Yorkshire. Both of the former are named with the Old English personal name Bēda + Old English ford ‘ford’. The name is now very common in Yorkshire as well as Bedfordshire.
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