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THE NAME AND FAMILY OF MULFORD.
[Extract from The Roots Research Bureau]
[Manuscript Number: 1897]
The name of MULFORD is believed to have been derived from the residence of its first bearers at a place, so
called, in England, but the exact location of this spot is not in evidence. It is probable that the name is of common origin
with the English surname MILFORD, meaning “the ford at the mill”. In ancient English and early American records
the name is found in the various forms of Mullford, Muleford, Mollford, Molford, Mulford, and others, of which the last is
the spelling most frequently found in America in modern times.
Anciently seated in Wiltshire and Devonshire, England, the
families bearing the name belonged, for the most part, to the landed gentry and yeomanry of Great Britain.
The earliest
definite records of the name in England are those of Gilbert de Mullford, who was living in Wiltshire during the reigns of
King Henry III and King Edward I [circa 1216-1307]; and those of Edmund and Richard de Muleford, who were living in Wiltshire
about the year 1273. These records are, however, only fragmentary.
Of the Devonshire family of the name [generally recorded
as MOLFORD], one Roger Molfford was living at South Molton, in that county, toward the end of the fifteenth century. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of Gilbert Hache, and had a son, Thomas Molfford, who left issue by his wife, Agnes Blackmore, of a son
named William. This William was the father by his wife, Sabyn Shote, of Jane, William, Edyth and Agnes, of whom the son married
Alice, daughter of Thomas White, of South Molton, and had issue by her of at least one son, Roger Molford. this Roger died
about 1594, leaving issue by his wife Amye, daughter of William Copener, alias Cadburye, of seven children, Roger, Thomas,
John, William, Sabian, Mary, and Agnes, of whom the first son died without issue.
Thomas Molford, second son of Roger and
Amye, resided at Chulmleigh, in Devon. By his wife Suzan, daughter of Thomas Southcot, he was the father of Roger, John, Thomas,
Gilbert, Amy, Suzan, Barbara, and Thomazin.
John Molford, third son of Roger and Amye died about 1626 at South Molton in
Devonshire, leaving issue by his wife, Cecilie Maye, whom he married in 1593, of Roger, John, Amye, Elizabeth, Suzan, Mary,
and Dorothie. Of these, Roger Molford was a student in the Middle Temple, London, and was married in 1631 to Zenobia Chollocomb,
by whom he was the father of John Molford, who married Ursula Hele, of county Cornwall, and had issue by her of John, Elizabeth,
Mary, Ursula and Francis; and John, the younger son of John and Cecilie, left only one child, a daughter named Cecil or Cecilie.
William
Molford, fourth son of Roger and Amye, married Grace Calmady and was the father by her of at least two children, Roger and
Ann or Amy, of whom the son is thought to have died without male issue.
Of the family in London, further record has been
found of William Mulford, whose wife, Elizabeth was buried there in 1655; and of Judith Mulford, who was married there in
1675 to one Thomas Grice.
No definite connection between the above mentioned lines and the first of the family to settle
in America is now in evidence, although one historian says of the brothers, John and William Mulford, who were the earliest
emigrants to this country, that they were “probably from Devonshire, England, where the name is often spelled “Molford. |
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MULFORD
family of Ripley County, Indiana
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| Joe Mulford Family in the early 1960s |
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THE FAMILY PAGES
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6/9/1897 - 3/19/1966
MARY MARGARET SPATZ MULFORD
1/31/1901 - 4/25/1988-
12/23/1936
DONALD MULFORD
5/12/1930
CHARLES MULFORD
6/13/1938 - 8/17/2003
5/20/1940
9/2/1927 - 2/21/2003
12/31/1924 - 2/1/1971
MARRIED BY US ARMY IN AUSTRIA MARCH 24, 1948
MARRIED PAULENE MEYERS 1969 TO 1975
MARRIED SENORITA ROY MULFORD IN TEXAS 1975
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JOE'S CHILDREN
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5/15/1952
CHILDREN:
5/ 12/1982
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7/13/1953
Married January 15,1971-Osgood,IN
CHILDREN:
6/4/1975
CHILDREN:Cory Wayne Kirkpatrick 5/ 23/1994
Gage
Peace Kirkpatrick 10/14/1998
Thomas Branson Kirkpatrick 3/ 17/2000
Riley Gene Kirkpatrick 9/18/2001
Holley Maria Peace Meador
11/ 19/1979
Married Aug.31,1997- James Chester Meador
CHILDREN
James Keith Meador Oct.6,1997
Dustin Paul Meador Aug.24,1998
William
Guthrie Meador Dec.27,2000
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Feb. 19,1955
CHILDREN:
Lisa Lynn Dunagan Hutson
Dec.31,1971
CHILDREN:
Donald Cain Meyer Oct. 19,1991
Jeffery Cyle Meyer Oct.19,1991
William Kurt Hutson Aug. 8,1996
CHILDREN:
Hailey Jade Brown Feb.7,2003
Brooklyn Brown
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Oct.23,1976 to March
4,1995
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