Charles Allen Field

Brief Life History of Charles Allen

When Charles Allen Field was born on 6 January 1837, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Isaac Field, was 27 and his mother, Mary White Allen, was 25. He married Ella Atkins on 16 January 1862, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 10 May 1906, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 69.

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Family Time Line

Charles Allen Field
1837–1906
Ella Atkins
1837–1916
Marriage: 16 January 1862
Charles James Field
1862–
George Furman Field
1864–1934
Florence Field
1868–1875
Mabel Geneva Field
1873–1955
Frank M. Field
1876–

Sources (20)

  • Charles A Fields in household of Isaac Fields, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Charles Field, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
  • Charles A. Field, "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940"

World Events (7)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

Name Meaning

English and Irish: habitational name, probably from Field, in Leigh, Staffordshire. The placename derives from Old English feld ‘flat open country’. In the late 12th century one of Henry II's warrior knights took the surname to Ireland, where it often took the semi-Norman French form de la Feld. From the 15th century onward it was increasingly reduced to Field and gave its name to Fieldstown, the family's chief seat near Dublin. A branch of the Anglo-Irish family that migrated back to England in the 14th century retained the Normanized form as Delafield .

English: topographic name for someone who lived by an arable field or an area of open country (Middle English feld).

Irish: Anglicized form of Feeley , through similarity of sound, and of Maghery by translation (chiefly in Armagh), from Gaelic An Mhachaire ‘of the field’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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