When Moreland Dunford was born on 29 August 1852, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, George James Dunford, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Jones, was 27. He married Eudora Lovina Young on 3 October 1870, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 18 June 1882, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 29, 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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