Records of Florence Cayford on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Florence Cayford in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Florence Cayford and the Cayford Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Cayford Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Cayford family tree.

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Cayford Family Tree Databases

Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.

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Cayford Forums

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Miscellaneous Cayford Databases

Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Florence Cayford. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Florence Cayford

Florence Cayford

Dame Florence Evelyne Cayford (14 June 1897 – 25 February 1987) was a Labour politician in London.

From 1937 to 1965, Cayford served as a member of Hampstead Borough Council, leading the Labour group 1945–58. She sat an alderman on the London County Council, and later as a councillor Shoreditch and Finsbury. She served as chair of the council in 1960. She continued as a councillor on the newly formed London Borough of Camden from 1964, serving as Deputy Mayor 1967–68 and Mayor 1968–69, and represented Islington on the Greater London Council from 1964 to 1967.

In the 1965 Birthday Honours, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) for "political and public services". In 1968 she saw foundation stone laid for what would become Webheath.

Source: Florence Cayford, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Cayford

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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