Last name: WHITFORD
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WHITFORD : This last name is indexed 30,216 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WHITFORD : English and Scottish: habitational name from Whitford in Shute (Devon) or Whitford in Bromsgrove (Worcestershire) in England. In Scotland from Whiteford near Paisley (Renfrewshire). The placenames probably derive from Old English hwīt ‘white’ + ford ‘ford’ or their Scots equivalents.
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