Butterfield Family History
Butterfield Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a pasture for
cattle or at a dairy farm, or a habitational name from a place named
Butterfield (for example in West Yorkshire), from Old English
butere ‘butter’ + feld ‘open country’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Butterfield
Name Distribution of Butterfield Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Butterfield families
 1,130 - 2,258  377 - 1,129 |
 1 - 376  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Butterfield families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Butterfield census records
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Butterfield Family Origin
Butterfield Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Butterfield Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Butterfield census records
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Military Service by Butterfield
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