When Elisabeth Stratford was born in 1839, in Maldon, Essex, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Stratford, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Moss Ferguson, was 38. She died on 27 July 1851, in Maldon St Mary, Essex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 12.
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English:
habitational name from any of various places called Stratford, for example in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, and Wiltshire, from Old English strǣt ‘Roman road’ (see Street ) + ford ‘ford’.
habitational name principally from Strafford Sands (now lost) in Mexborough (Yorkshire), presumed to be the ancient meeting-place of Strafforth Wapentake, and deriving from the same source as 1 above.
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