Waterfield Family History
- Waterfield Name Meaning
- English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Vatierville in Seine-Maritime, France, so named from the personal name Walter + Old French ville ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 134,705 Historical Documents with Waterfield on Ancestry
- 53,369 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 27,922 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,254 Military Records
- 3,567 Immigration Records
- 45,593 Member Trees
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Number of Waterfield families
 127 - 251  43 - 126 |
 1 - 42  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Waterfield families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Waterfield census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Waterfield census records
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