When Thomas Buford was christened on 21 May 1682, in Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Blewford, was 20 and his mother, Mary, was 19. He married Elizabeth in 1700. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He died before 7 July 1761, in Virginia, British Colonial America, and was buried in Virginia, British Colonial America.
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Altered form of French Beaufort or of its English altered form Beauford . Compare Bufford .
History: American bearers of this name are mostly descended from Richard Beaufort or Beauford, who came from England to Lancaster County, VA, in 1635. He was born in England as a son of a French Huguenot immigrant John Beaufort and is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors (as Richard Beauford or Beaufort or Buford). See also Beaufort .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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