When John Buford was born about 1642, in Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Richard Beauford, was 26 and his mother, Margaret Dora Vause, was 23. He married Elizabeth Parrat on 11 April 1662, in Christchurch, Middlesex, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 18 April 1722, in Middlesex, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 81.
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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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