Last name: BRADFORD
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BRADFORD : This last name is indexed 228,789 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BRADFORD : English: habitational name from any of the many places large and small called Bradford; in particular the city in Yorkshire which originally rose to prosperity as a wool town. There are others in Derbyshire Devon Dorset Greater Manchester Norfolk Somerset Cheshire Wiltshire and elsewhere. They are all named with Old English brād ‘broad’ + ford ‘ford’.
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