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chesterfield Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place in Derbyshire named Chesterfield, from Old English ceaster ‘Roman fort’ + feld ‘open country’.

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chesterfield Family Facts

Distribution of chesterfield Families in the US in 1920
Number of chesterfield families
 6-9
 3-5
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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