When Archibald Bedford was born on 7 November 1769, in Drakes Branch, Charlotte, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Col. Thomas Bedford, was 44 and his mother, Mary Ligon Coleman, was 38. He married Letitia Clay on 31 January 1796, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 1 January 1827, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States.
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English: habitational name from the county seat of Bedfordshire, or a smaller place of the same name in Lancashire, or from Bedforth in Thornhill, Yorkshire. Both of the former are named with the Old English personal name Bēda + Old English ford ‘ford’. The name is now very common in Yorkshire as well as Bedfordshire.
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