Wakefield Family History
Wakefield Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in West
Yorkshire, and probably also from a place of the same name in
Northamptonshire. Both are named from an Old English wacu
‘vigil’, ‘festival’ (a derivative of wac(i)an ‘to watch or
wake’) + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’, i.e. a patch of open
land where a fair was held.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wakefield
Name Distribution of Wakefield Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wakefield families
 333 - 664  112 - 332 |
 1 - 111  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wakefield families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wakefield census records
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Wakefield Family Origin
Wakefield Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Wakefield Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Wakefield Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Wakefield census records
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Military Service by Wakefield
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