When William Durnford was born in 1392, in Devon, England, his father, John Durnford, was 17 and his mother, Joan de Cockayne, was 16. He died in 1393, at the age of 1.
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English: habitational name from Durnford in Wiltshire, which was named in Old English as ‘the hidden ford’ (dierne ford). It could also be from a similarly named place (also called Dunford) in Addlestone, Surrey.
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