Byfield Family History
Byfield Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Byfield
Name Distribution of Byfield Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Byfield families
 89 - 175  30 - 88 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Byfield families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Byfield census records
You can see how Byfield families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Byfield Family Origin
Byfield Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Byfield families immigrated
to the United States.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Byfield Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Byfield census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Byfield ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Byfield
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