When Lydia Dunford was born on 2 July 1846, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, George James Dunford, was 23 and her mother, Sarah Jones, was 21. She married George Alfred Alder on 8 April 1864, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 1 March 1923, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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habitational name from Dunford Bridge, in Thurlstone (Yorkshire), so called from the river Don (a British name possibly meaning ‘river’) + Old English ford ‘ford’, or from Dunford House in Methley (Yorkshire), named in Old English as ‘Dunn's ford’ (see Dunn 2).
variant of Durnford, a habitational name from Durnford in Wiltshire, arising from Old English dierne + ford ‘hidden ford’. Alternatively, the name may perhaps arise from Dunford, alias Durnford, in Addlestone (Surrey).
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Possible Related NamesMarch of 1883 was one of the most difficult of Lydia Dunford Alder’s life. On the sixth of that month, her oldest child and oldest daughter, Helen Eugenia Alder, died of what the newspapers called “ …
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