When George James Dunford was born on 15 December 1822, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Dunford, was 29 and his mother, Mary Blair, was 26. He married Sarah Jones on 8 April 1844, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Draycott in the Clay, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died on 14 February 1891, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, 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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