Brief Life History of Margret
Margret Hayford was born on 1 May 1930, in Cape Coast Metropolitan, Central, Ghana as the daughter of Charles Hayford. She died on 15 March 2012, at the age of 81.
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1966
While Nkrumah is in China, army stages widely popular coup. National Liberation Council comes to power.
1979
Junior officers stage Ghana's first violent coup, June 4. Armed Forces Revolutionary Council formed under Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings. Hilla Limann elected president in July.
1981
Rawlings stages second coup. Provisional National Defence Council established with Rawlings as chairman.
Name Meaning
English (Middlesex and Surrey):
habitational name from Nether and Upper Heyford (Northamptonshire), Lower and Upper Heyford (Oxfordshire), Hayford in Buckfastleigh (Devon), or from unidentified minor places in other counties called Hayford, all named with Old English hēg ‘hay’ or (ge)hæg ‘fence, enclosure’ + ford ‘ford’.
variant of Hawford, itself a variant of Halford , with the common dialect pronunciation of -aw- as -ay- or -ey-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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