Canfield Family History
- Canfield Name Meaning
- habitational name from Great or Little Canfield in Essex, named with the Old English personal name Cana + feld ‘open country’. in some cases the surname may be of Norman origin, a habitational name from Canville-les-Deux-Églises in Seine-Maritime, France.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 492,668 Historical Documents with Canfield on Ancestry
- 123,006 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 89,795 Census and Voter Lists
- 18,956 Military Records
- 6,809 Immigration Records
- 254,102 Member Trees
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Number of Canfield families
 40 - 77  14 - 39 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Canfield families
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9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Canfield census records
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- Ireland (125)
- England (35)
- Great Britain (25)
- Scotland (12)
- Ireland;Great Britain (3)
- Mannhein,United States of America (2)
from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Canfield census records
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