Last name: LEDFORD
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LEDFORD : This last name is indexed 20,149 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
LEDFORD : English: habitational name probably from either of two places called Lydford in Devon and Somerset. The first is named with the river name Lyd (from Old English hl̄de ‘noisy stream’) + Old English ford i.e. ‘ford over the Lyd river’. Lydford in Somerset was named ‘ford over the noisy stream’ from Old English hl̄de + ford.
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