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Canfield Name Meaning
habitational name from Great or Little Canfield in
Essex, named with the Old English personal name Cana +
feld ‘open country’.in some cases the surname may be of
Norman origin, a habitational name from Canville-les-Deux-Églises
in Seine-Maritime, France.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Canfield
Name Distribution of Canfield Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Canfield families
 195 - 388  66 - 194 |
 1 - 65  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Canfield families
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40 - 77 14 - 39 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Canfield families
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9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Canfield Family Origin
Canfield Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Canfield
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Canfield Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Canfield census records
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Canfield Civil War Service Records
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