Chesterfield Family History
Chesterfield Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Derbyshire named
Chesterfield, from Old English ceaster ‘Roman fort’ +
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Chesterfield
Name Distribution of Chesterfield Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chesterfield families
 46 - 90  16 - 45 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Chesterfield census records
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Chesterfield Family Origin
Chesterfield Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Chesterfield families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Chesterfield Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Chesterfield census records
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Military Service by Chesterfield
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