Field Name Study

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Kent, England, United Kingdom
Surname/tag: Field

About the Project

The Field Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Field name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Field name.

As an 'appetiser', The Field surname dates from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain and is thought to be derived from the geographic locality to the fields.

The link House of Names and Guild of One-Name Studies both provide very detailed and useful reviews of the Field surname.

House of Names discusses the earliest occurrences of the name, to quote verbatim "The surname Field was first found in many shires and counties throughout Britain. Some of the earliest records show: Thomas Felde in the Writs of Parliament of 1301; William de la Felde in Gloucestershire during reign of King Edward I; and John de la Felde in  Herefordshire at about the same time. The  Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 list Linot ate Feld and William a la Feld in Oxfordshire."

Guild of One name Studies discusses the variants of the name and these are all acceptable in this Field One Name Study, being Fields, Field, Feild, Feld, Felde, ffield, Fyld, del Feld, de la Felde, Delafield, and Dalafield"

Interestingly, the Name Field is now most prominent in the United States of America. World wide it is estimated that 1 in nearly 87 thousand surnames is a Field.

Project preference is that the those who have an interest perhaps consider a regional or thematic breakdown of listings.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Field's), by time period (18th Century Field's), or by topic (Field DNA, Field Occupations, Field Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

How to Join

To join the Field Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Andrew Field for assistance.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!

• Kent, Field Name Study that is aimed at bringing together all the Fields who were born in Kent, England, lived there and progenerated, and died in the county.

Membership

• Andrew Field Project Co-ordinator - .Kent, Field Name Study