Brief Life History of Edward
Mr Edward Whitfield was born on 20 February 1938. He died on 30 June 2017, at the age of 79.
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Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Whitfield, for example in Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, Northamptonshire, and Northumberland, or Whitefield in Lancashire and the Isle of Wight, named with Old English hwīt ‘white’ + feld ‘open country’, probably because of their chalky soil.
History: Henry Whitfield (1597–c. 1657), preacher and scholar, came from Mortlake, Surrey, England (now part of Greater London) to New Haven, CT, in 1639 and was one of the first settlers in Guilford, CT. He had ten children, some of whom he left in CT when he returned to England in 1650, where he died.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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