When William Ralph Field was born on 22 April 1847, in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Field Jr., was 49 and his mother, Ellen Neilon, was 33. He died in July 1882, in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, at the age of 35, and was buried in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England.
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The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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’.
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Possible Related NamesThis Is William Field's tombstone inscription in the St. James Church Cemetery in Bushy, England SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM FIELD WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER 16th 1868 IN THE 71th YEAR …
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