Daily AncestorAlfd.
Alfd. in a name column is an old abbreviation of the first name Alfred; the shorter Alf. can also mean Alfred.
Alfd. keeps the first and last letters of Alfred, with the d often raised above the line. Clerks shortened common first names like this to save time in long lists.
The shorter Alf. is less certain. Name lists give it as Alfred, but one also gives Alphonse, so in a French family check for the name written out in full elsewhere.
As seen in a recordName column of the 1880 census
Alfd. Pickering, 23, Teamster
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