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![Show Contents]() Saford History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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The name Saford is of Anglo-Saxon origin and came from when a family lived at the estate of Salford which had three early locations in England including Lancashire, Oxford and Bedfordshire. Early Origins of the Saford familyThe surname Saford was first found in Bedfordshire in the parish of Salford. "This place, which lies on the borders of Buckinghamshire, was formerly the property of a family who took their name from it, and was afterwards possessed by the Drakelows, and the Charnocks, from whom it passed by marriage to the Herveys." 1 Early History of the Saford familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Saford research. Another 88 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1260, 1674 and 1691 are included under the topic Early Saford History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Saford Spelling VariationsSound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Saford family name include Salford, Sallford, Sallforde, Salforde and others. Early Notables of the Saford familyDistinguished members of the family include Thomas Saffoled (died 1691), English empiric, (a person who, in medicine or other branches of science, relies solely on observation and experiment) originally a weaver by trade, received a license to practise as a doctor of physic from the bishop of London on 4 Sept. 1674. "He had a shop at...
Another 57 words (4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Saford Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
 Saford migration to the United States | + |
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Saford surname or a spelling variation of the name include :
Saford Settlers in United States in the 17th Century- Christopher Saford, who landed in Virginia in 1623 2
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
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Saford migration to the United States 
