Penfold Family History
Penfold Name Meaning
English (mainly Sussex and Kent): from Middle English
punfold ‘pound’, Old English pundfald, applied as a
topographic name for someone who lived by a pound for stray animals or
a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of such a pound;
alternatively it may have been a habitational name from a minor place
named with this word such as Poundfield in East Sussex.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Penfold Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Penfold families
 22 - 42  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Penfold families
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460 - 918 154 - 459 |
1 - 153 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Penfold families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Penfold Family Origin
Penfold Immigration Information
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Penfold Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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