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sheffield Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from the city in South Yorkshire, so called from the river name Sheaf (from Old English sceað ‘boundary’) + Old English feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’. There are also minor places of the same name in Sussex (from Old English sceap, scip ‘sheep’ + feld) and Berkshire (from Old English sceo ‘shelter’, ‘shed’ + feld), which may have contributed to the surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the sheffield family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of sheffield Families in the US in 1920
Number of sheffield families
 158-313
 53-157		 1-52
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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