Westfield Family History
Westfield Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a field (Middle
English feld) to the west (Middle English west) of a
settlement, or a habitational name from either of two places named
Westfield, in Norfolk and Sussex, from Old English west ‘west’
+ 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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Westfield
Name Distribution of Westfield Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Westfield families
 33 - 63  12 - 32 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Westfield census records
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Westfield Family Origin
Westfield Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Westfield Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Westfield census records
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Military Service by Westfield
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