R Garfield was born about 1774, in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. He married Rizpah Ballou about 1799, in Gloucester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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English (Midlands): topographic name from Middle English gor(e), gar(e) ‘triangular piece’ + feld ‘open country, field’ (Old English gār + feld), for someone who lived by a triangular piece of land.
English: alternatively, sometimes perhaps a variant of Carville (a name of Norman origin), with excrescent final -d.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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