Släkthistoria för Cullingford
Cullingford Vad efternamn betyder
of uncertain orgin. It may be an altered form of a name originating outside E Anglia. One possibility is the WR Yorks name Cullingworth alias Collingwood with -ford substituted for -worth and -wood. In 16th- and 17th-century Norfolk and Suffolk appear Thomas Collingworthe 1582 Andrew Cullinworth 1606 Ellen Collingworth 1664 in IGI (Norwich Norfolk); Geo. Collingwood 1584 in IGI (Glemsford Suffolk); Robt. Collingwood 1607 in IGI (Great Yarmouth Norfolk). The NE surname Collingwood is another possible source. Alternatively Cullingworth and Collingwood (and therefore perhaps Cullingford) may be variants of the Leics or Northumb name Killingworth with rounding of the vowel. Johes Kyllyngworthe 1545 in IGI (Norwich Norfolk) may be compared with the Cull- Collingworth examples from Norwich cited above. John Killingsworth 1565 Elizabeth Killingworth 1634 in IGI (Little Plumstead Norfolk) may be compared with Alse Collingwood 1563 and Thomas Collingwood 1627 in IGI (Little Plumstead Norfolk). However it is impossible without genealogical evidence to know if these are variants of a single name or two or more different names coinciding in the same parishes. What relationship the surname has with Collingsford Bridge in Wetheringsett (Suffolk) is unknown.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016