When Martha Jane Field was born on 7 March 1842, in Berwick, Warren, Illinois, United States, her father, Benjamin Fields, was 27 and her mother, Delilah Long, was 26. She married Jefferson Midkiff Howell on 11 November 1866, in Umatilla, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Pleasant Township, Monroe, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Georgetown, Clear Creek, Colorado, United States in 1880. She died on 12 December 1924, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1843: Wapello, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Wapello, Iowa, United States
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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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