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benefield Name Meaning and History

  1. variant of Banfield or Bonfield.
  2. topographic name from Middle English bent ‘bent-grass’ + feld ‘open country’ or ‘land converted to arable use’, or a habitational name from a place named with these elements (Old English beonet + feld), such as Binfield in Berkshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The benefield name in History

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Distribution of benefield Families in the US in 1920
Number of benefield families
 42-82
 15-41		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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