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chesterfield Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place in Derbyshire named Chesterfield, from Old English ceaster ‘Roman fort’ + feld ‘open country’.

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The chesterfield name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the chesterfield family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of chesterfield Families in the US in 1920
Number of chesterfield families
 6-9
 3-5		 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 13 - Messages: 25
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TRACING MY ADOPTED SON.MICHAEL PHILLIPS LindaWalsh71 2
Family connections to Stephen and Laura Chesterfield mcwiley_1 0
Four Families in Chesterfield, England Wilson Longden 6
Chesterfield of Indiana SallyChesterfield 2
Hugh Coker jrrasco 0
Photos of Grave Stones Joan Letsos 0
CHESTERFIELD Alun 0
Four families in Chesterfield terry3323 0
NUNN's of CHESTERFIELD, ENGLAND. Clif 0
Chesterfield Families-Gertrude or Lizzie parryltd41 0
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