Patfield History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

Patfield is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived in the region of Patty's field. Patfield is a topographic surname, which was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties.

Early Origins of the Patfield family

The surname Patfield was first found in county Staffordshire, where the family held a family seat since ancient times.

Early History of the Patfield family

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Patfield Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Patfield family name include Padfield, Paddfield, Padfild, Padfeld, Padefeld, Patfield, Padford, Paddford, Patford and many more.

Early Notables of the Patfield family

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Patfield migration to Canada +

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Patfield surname or a spelling variation of the name include:

Patfield Settlers in Canada in the 18th Century

James Patfield, who landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1749-1752