Whitfield Family History
- Whitfield Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of various places named Whitfield, for example in Derbyshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, and Northumberland, named with Old English hwit ‘white’ + feld ‘open country’, because of their chalky or soil.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,104,329 Historical Documents with Whitfield on Ancestry
- 368,132 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 222,032 Census and Voter Lists
- 31,441 Military Records
- 26,099 Immigration Records
- 456,625 Member Trees
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Number of Whitfield families
 587 - 1,172  196 - 586 |
 1 - 195  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Whitfield families
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12 - 22 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Whitfield census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Whitfield census records
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