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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places (the two main ones being in Derbyshire and Lancashire) named with Old English bēam ‘tree’, ‘beam’ + ford ‘ford’, i.e. a ford beside a plank bridge for those who wished to keep their feet dry.

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