Mayfield Family History
Mayfield Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places so named in Staffordshire
and Sussex. The former was named in Old English as ‘open country
(feld) where madder (mæddre) grows’, while the latter
was named as ‘open country where mayweed (mægðe)
grows’. The surname is now most common in Nottinghamshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mayfield
Name Distribution of Mayfield Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mayfield families
 125 - 248  42 - 124 |
 1 - 41  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mayfield families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mayfield census records
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Mayfield Family Origin
Mayfield Emigration Information (US)
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Mayfield Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Mayfield census records
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Military Service by Mayfield
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