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byfield Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a patch of open land, from Middle English by ‘by’, ‘beside’ + felde ‘open land, for pasture or cultivation’, or a habitational name with the same meaning, from a place named Byfield, from Old English bi + feld, for example in Northamptonshire.

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byfield Family Facts

Distribution of byfield Families in the US in 1920
Number of byfield families
 9-16
 4-8
 1-3
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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