When William Wakefield was born on 12 July 1769, in Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont, United States, his father, William Wakefield, was 45 and his mother, Dorcas Hayward, was 33. He married Rachel Sanderson in 1802, in Richmond, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 21 November 1859, in Richmond, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 90, and was buried in Melbourne Ridge, Melbourne, Le Val-Saint-François, Quebec, Canada.
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English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in Yorkshire and from Wakefield Lawn in Potterspury (Northamptonshire). Both are named from the Old English personal name Waca or Old English wacu ‘wake, festival’ + feld ‘open country’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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