English: habitational name, possibly a variant of
Litchfield. The surname is not found in current English
records, but of the 52 bearers recorded in the 1881 British Census, 28
were born in Kent, suggesting that a different, unidentified source
could be involved.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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