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Bradford

in Virginia

There are 829 people with the last name "Bradford" in Virginia.

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Bradford 957
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  1. is 953rd most common Lacy
  2. is 954th most common Proctor
  3. is 955th most common Yoder
  4. is 956th most common Ritter
  5. is 957th most common Bradford
  6. is 958th most common Padgett
  7. is 959th most common Paige
  8. is 960th most common Mcneil
  9. is 961st most common Boyle

Most Common First Names for Bradford

Robert, William, James, Patricia, Kenneth, Michael, Thomas, Barbara, Mark

Meaning & History

English: habitational name from any of the many places, large and small, called Bradford; in particular the city in West Yorkshire, which originally rose to prosperity as a wool town. There are others in Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Somerset, and elsewhere. They are all named with Old English brād ‘broad’ + ford ‘ford’.

FOREBEARS This name was brought independently to North American by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. William Bradford (1590–1657), born in Austerfield in South Yorkshire, England, the son of a yeoman farmer, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who emigrated to America on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact and in 1621 he was elected governor of Plymouth colony, being re-elected thirty times.Another William Bradford (1663–1752), printer, came from Barnwell, Leicestershire, England, to Philadelphia, PA, in 1685, subsequently moving to New York, where he set up a printing press and founded a paper mill. His grandson, also called William Bradford (1721–91), was known as ‘the patriot printer’, famous for his Philadelphia newspaper, which among other things denounced the Stamp Act, “which no American can mention witout abhorrence”.

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