Last name: TELFORD
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TELFORD : This last name is indexed 35,421 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
TELFORD : English (northern): not as its form would imply a habitational name even though there is a place in Shropshire so called but a variant of Telfer assimilated to the pattern of habitational names in -ford. The Shropshire place is a new town named after the celebrated Scottish civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757–1834).
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