When William D Dunford was born on 17 January 1847, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Isaac Dunford, was 23 and his mother, Leah Bailey, was 19. He married Melvina Caroline Blanche Whitney on 1 October 1867, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1860. He died on 17 October 1891, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Bloomington Cemetery, Bloomington, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great 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 NamesAuthor: Ruth Nelson Baker (Source: "The Story of the Ancestors and Descendants of Isaac and Leah Bailey Dunford." Bountiful, The Isaac and Leah Bailey Dunford Family Association, 1996) William Dunf …
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