The LIPFORD surname is English,
meaning a dweller near a ford crossed by leaping. (Source: Encyclopedia
of American Family Names by Amanda Robb and Andrew Chesler)
Michael
Bailey of London, England, a professor at Anderson University in
Indiana, has suggested that the name may have come from the surname
LIPP who lived near a ford in England. Members of the Von Der Lippe
family in Germany immigrated to England, and their name may have
been anglicized to Lipp or Lipford.
A Robart 'LIPFOORD' married Mary Marten on October 23, 1578, in
Strood, near Rochester, Kent, England. (IGS Parish Registers, 1988
Edition)
Several researchers have "combed through" pages of passenger
lists, looking for the Lipford name coming from England to America
as immigrants. The name has not been found on any passenger lists,
although not all ships were required to list their passengers.
Lipford has been spelled many ways in U. S. records, including
Lifford, Lippard, Lippford, Lepford, Lippord, Lipfford, Lipfird,
Linpford, Lypford, Lipsford, etc.
Amos Lipford and John Lipford, perhaps brothers, were named in
documents from Amelia County, Virginia as early as 1756 when John
was listed as a Grantee in a deed and Amos a witness to a deed in
1760. Amos’ name was spelled Lippard on the document. This
document concerning John Lipford stated that he was from Dinwiddie
County, Virginia. That information, coupled with the Revolutionary
War pension application that states Henry S. Lipford, son of Amos
Lipford, was born in Dinwiddie County in 1753, places the Lipford
brothers in Dinwiddie County between 1753-1756. Dinwiddie County
was established May 1, 1752 from Prince George County.
Amos Lipford was married to Frances Traylor, daughter of John Traylor
I and wife Mary, and had ten children. Four of his sons, Edward
Lipford, Henry S. Lipford, John Traylor Lipford, and Anthony Par
Lipford served in the Revolutionary War. Amos Lipford died 1815
in Prince Edward County, Virginia and left a will naming nine of
his ten children. His son Edward Lipford was killed in the Revolutionary
War in April of 1777, and Amos served as executor of his son’s
estate.
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