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The schofield Surname

schofield Name Meaning and History

English (mainly northern): habitational name from any of various minor places, in Lancashire and elsewhere, named from Middle English sc(h)ole ‘hut’ (see Scales) + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of schofield Families in the US in 1920
Number of schofield families
 131-259
 44-130
 1-43
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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