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Origin of the Surname OXFORD.
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OXFORD.
From Oxford, in England, on the Isis, the seat of the celebrated university
founded in 806; from ox, Anglo-Saxon, water, corrupted by the Angles or
Danes from the Gaelic uisge or isk, and ford, a pass or way—the ford across the Isis. Bailey
derives it from Oxen-ford, "the ford of the oxen," like the
Greek Bosphorus, or from the river Ouse, and ford.
The name of the river Ouse is derived from uisge, water.
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