When Joseph Stanford was born on 5 April 1860, in Sunderland, Durham, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Stanford, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth W Young, was 23. He lived in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom in 1861. He died on 4 September 1861, in Bridger, Uinta, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Millersville, Uinta, Wyoming, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places so called, including Stanford (Bedfordshire, Kent), Stanford Dingley and Stanford in the Vale (Berkshire), Stanford le Hope and Stanford Rivers (Essex), Stanford Bishop and Stanford Regis (Herefordshire), Stanford on Avon (Northamptonshire), Stanford on Soar (Nottinghamshire), and Stanford on Teme (Worcestershire); also from Stamford (Lincolnshire, Northumberland), Stamford Bridge (East Yorkshire), and Standford in Headley (Hampshire), all of which appear as Stanford in medieval documents. The placenames all derive from Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + ford ‘ford’. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 16th century, where it is also found under the variant Stankard.
History: An early bearer of this surname in North America, Thomas Stanford of England, settled in Charlestown, MA, in the mid 17th century and started a family line that includes Leland Stanford (1824–93), the railroad developer who was governor of CA, a US senator, and the founding benefactor of Stanford University.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesEmigrating to Utah Joseph Stanford, his wife, Elizabeth Young, and their son, Joseph age 12 months were part of a PEF company of Saints traveling from Liverpool to New York. They would have traveled …
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