Family Origins
This Coat of Arms was
taken from
“Burke’s General
Armory” compiled by
“Sir Bernard Burke”
C.B.; LL.D;,
Ulster King of Arms to
the Queen (1842)
Staniforth
Variants
Stanford, Staniford, Staniforth, Stainforth. A locality name meaning ‘of
Stanford’, from parishes found in the south of England. This name is of English
descent and is found in many ancient manuscripts in the above country. Examples
of such are an Adam de Stanford, County Oxfordshire, who was recorded in the
‘Hundred Rolls’, England, in the year 1273 and a Symon de Stanford, County
Huntingdonshire, was also recorded in the same year in this ancient document.
Names were recorded in these ancient documents to make it easier for their
overlords to collect taxes and to keep records of the population at any given
time. When the overlords acquired land by either force or gifts from their
rulers, they created charters of ownership for themselves and their vassals.
Other examples of this name were found in the person of a Florentia de
Stanforde, County Somerset, who was recorded in ‘Kirby’s Quest’, in the reign
of Edward III and a Thomas Stanniford was recorded in the University of Oxford,
in the year 1622.
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