Ranford (surname)

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Ranford is an English-language surname, a variation of the toponymic surname Rainford from the village Rainford, Lancashire. [1] [2] Notable people with the surname include:

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  1. Lower, M.A. (1860). Patronymica Britannica: A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom. J.R. Smith. p. 284. ISBN   978-0-7884-0456-6 . Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  2. Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 2213. ISBN   978-0-19-252747-9. OCLC   964412220 . Retrieved 26 June 2019.