Whitefield Family History
Whitefield Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places in Greater Manchester
and the Isle of Wight, named with Old English hwit ‘white’ +
feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’ (see Whitfield).Americanized form of German Weissfeld (see
Weisfeld).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Whitefield
Name Distribution of Whitefield Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Whitefield families
 31 - 59  11 - 30 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Whitefield families
|
45 - 87 16 - 44 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Whitefield families
|
85 - 168 29 - 84 |
1 - 28 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Whitefield census records
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Whitefield Family Origin
Whitefield Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Whitefield
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Whitefield Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Whitefield census records
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Whitefield Civil War Service Records
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