When Eleanor Duffield was born on 5 September 1861, in Illinois, United States, her father, Amos Duffield, was 38 and her mother, Elizabeth Castleman, was 25. She lived in Lancaster, Nebraska, United States in 1900. She died on 9 April 1934, in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Wyuka Cemetery, Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of the places called Duffield in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, from Old English dūfe ‘dove’ + feld ‘open country’.
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