When Jean Baptiste Napoléon Edgar Duford was born on 30 November 1905, in Hintonburg, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, his father, Jean Baptiste Duford, was 35 and his mother, Azélie Bruyère, was 31. He married Agnes Mabel Moynahan on 14 November 1926, in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 27 November 1983, in Ottawa, Ottawa-Carleton, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 77.
Some characteristic forenames: French Lucien, Marcelle, Veronique.
Altered form of French Dufort .
English: apparently a habitational name from a lost or as yet unidentified place, perhaps from Dulford in Broadhembury (Devon), which is named from an unattested Old English word dylfet ‘pit, quarry’. It is possible that the name was subsequently confused with French Dufort (compare 1 above).
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