SANDFORD

(origin: Local) From Sandford, a place in Westmoreland, England--the sand-ford.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

SANDFORD. "A family of acknowledged antiquity, whose ancestor ' Thomas' was certainly seated at Sandford in the parish of Prees, co. Salop soon after the Conquest, and which has ever since remained their principal seat." Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men. Parishes in Devon, Somerset, Oxford, &c., are likewise so called.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.