The woodfield Surname
woodfield Name Meaning and History
- English: topographic name for someone who lived in a stretch of open country by a wood, or (as a later formation) someone who lived near a field by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu) + feld ‘open country’, later with the modern meaning ‘field’.
- Scottish: habitational name from Woodfield, a place near Annan in Dumfriesshire. A certain Roger Wodyfelde is recorded as holding land in Dumfries in 1365.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Alan Judson Woodfield of New York City | leslie ann woodfield | 10 |
| Thomas Breedon Woodfield |
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| Eleanor Woodfield | Murray | 3 |
| Woodfield of Washington DC | william woodfield | 8 |
| Woodfield kin | Jamie Woodfield | 2 |
| Margaret Woodfield (Wisconsin, Rhode Island, England) |
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| John Thomas Woodfield; England > New Zealand | Frank Woodfield | 0 |
| obit fyi - Father Robert Charles WOODFIELD, 1920 NY. - 2007 CA. |
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| Elizabeth WOODFIELD - Shifnal, Shropshire, ENG - 1720's |
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| Woodfield from England | Sue (Woodfield) House | 5 |
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