Last name: ELFORD
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ELFORD : This last name is indexed 14,799 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
ELFORD : English: habitational name from Yelverton in Buckland Monachorum (Devon) recorded as Elleford in 1291 (see Yelverton) named from the Old English personal name Ella or elle ellen ‘elder tree’ + ford ‘ford’. The name may also derive from any of the places called Elford in Staffordshire and Northumberland both probably from the Old English personal name Ella + ford.
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