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Last name
Alford

Nobility: Noble family - Knights - Lords
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England (England)
Language of the text: Portugûes

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Os primeiros registros revelam que esse sobrenome se originou na Inglaterra. Existem vários lugares assim chamados, três em particular; um em Surrey provavelmente derivou das palavras 'eaold' que significam velho (registrado como Adeford no século 14) e 'ford' que significa vau. O outro em Somerset (Aldedeford no Domesday Book), do qual o primeiro elemento é o nome pessoal feminino do inglês antigo 'Ealdgyo', composto pelos elementos 'eald' que significa velho e 'gyo' que significa batalha; e um em Lincolnshire. (Alforde in Domesday Book), cujo primeiro elemento vem da palavra do inglês antigo 'alor', que significa amieiro, ou '(e)alh', que significa templo, santuário. Há também um lugar com o mesmo nome no antigo condado de Aberdeen, na Escócia (agora parte da região de Grampian), que pode estar por trás de alguns exemplos escoceses do sobrenome. Informações compiladas de arquivos históricos e privados confirmaram que o sobrenome 'Alford' e/ou suas variantes, datam

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Alford

Gules, six peers or, three, two and one, a chief of the second.

Coat of arms of family Alford of Holt, co. Denbigh. Falway, co. Berks and of Meux, co. York, Sussex and Hertfordshire, descended from Thomas Alford, of Holt, mentioned in the last visitation of York. 1615. Source: "The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales" by Sir Bernard Burke, London 1884

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Alford

Gules, six peers or, three, two and one, a chief of the second. Crest: a boar's head argent, in his mouth three feathers of a Pheasant's tail proper.

Coat of arms of family Alford of Holt, co. Denbigh. Falway, co. Berks and of Meux, co. York, Sussex and Hertfordshire, descended from Thomas Alford, of Holt, mentioned in the last visitation of York. 1615. Source: "The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales" by Sir Bernard Burke, London 1884

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Alford

Gules, a chevron betwen two garbs or in chief, and in base in bend sinister a flag azure, fimbrated of the second, charged with a saltire argent,being the banner of, Scotland.

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